I just lately shared about how I turned my Afghan Box Camera into a 4×5 slide projector. On this article, I’ll share one other concept based mostly on the Afghan Field Digicam: to utilize my humble cell phone digicam to create a big format look with the field digicam and its lens.
That is a lot impressed by different fellow photographers who’ve designed related stuff comparable to this by Olexiy Shportun and another by Tim Hamilton. The principle concept behind that is to utilize a digital digicam to take a photograph of the projected picture made by the big format lens.
Design
In my design, I made a decision to utilize a cell phone digicam quite than a DSLR or mirrorless digicam. Nevertheless, how would I management the cell phone digicam if the cellphone is positioned contained in the field? Fortunately there are numerous apps that can assist us.
Distant Management
For my Android cellphone, I made a decision to go for the IP Webcam app for its versatile. It’s free, can be utilized by way of Wi-Fi, and is straightforward to make use of. Therefore through the use of this app, the cell phone digicam might be managed and therefore set off remotely.
After some testing, I noticed that the cellphone digicam can’t be too close to the bottom glass in any other case the cellphone digicam will produce a picture with a sizzling spot. The most effective place I discovered is to position the cellphone all the best way to the again of the field digicam. The bottom glass picture will solely occupy about half of the digicam cellphone picture body. This may be simply overcome by way of zooming in by way of the management interface or cropping throughout post-processing.
The IP Webcam management interface is straightforward to make use of, I normally play with the next settings
Zoom. To zoom on the bottom glass picture as talked about above.
Publicity compensation. This setting might be adjusted from -12 to +12 steps (undecided how 1 step is equal to a photographic cease).
Results. Like all cellphone digital digicam filter, you possibly can set it to black and white, sepia, and damaging. My favourite is black and white merely to imitate the normally monochrome picture we take with black and white photographic paper.
White stability. For taking pictures in colour, the Daylight setting appears to spice up the colour saturation fairly a bit.
Pattern Pictures
In conclusion, this methodology of hybrid taking pictures has the potential to be explored additional. My greatest use of such a approach of taking pictures was in an academic workshop throughout this pandemic time the place protected distancing is inspired, so to have the ability to present what is occurring on the bottom glass remotely has been significantly helpful.
In regards to the writer: Cheng Qwee Low is a (primarily) movie photographer based mostly in Singapore. Along with utilizing cameras starting from 35mm to ultra-large-format 8×20, Low additionally enjoys various processes comparable to kallitype and albumen printing. The opinions expressed on this article are solely these of the writer. You will discover extra of Low’s work on his website and YouTube. This text was additionally revealed here.
