Kennet & Avon Lock #71

[JamesT]

Or the wonders of large format.

Taken with the Intrepid 5x4 camera, and the 180mm Xenar at f/16, exposure 1/5 on Fomapan 200.

I posted this one here rather than in one of the challenges as I wanted to show a couple of details as well. These are at the full resolution of the scan, I don't know whether the limit is the (rather old) lens, my ability to focus or the capabilities of the scanner.

The hidden angler

The leaky gate:

[Ryewolf]

Excellent James, now that I've seen the enlargements I can see them in the first image. And well done on persevering and continuing to use all these weird and wonderful film cameras, I think very few would have the time and patience these days....

[Korky]

I fully agree with Rye - your posts are always interesting.

Keep 'em comin'.

Korky

[Clicker]

Terrific resolution .. I agree ... the wonders of a large format .. 

[JamesT]

Thanks everyone.

FWIW, the raw scans are about 77MPix. Scanned at 6400dpi and binned down by a factor 3 in the scanning software.

But even at TIPF/Flickr resolutions there is a feeling of fine structure that I don't see in 35mm or digital images (MF comes in between).