easyexposure said
Brian, Looks like you are having fun with your new camera and taking it places!   

I sure am, and I am totally loving it!!

I don't do events to often this days, but I would still use 24-70 for the event, because you never know in what space you'll end up to be and if you can move to much. I would usually have two cameras with me with different lenses. It is a heavy situation, but I could manage it somehow. Of course I would be dead tired at the end of the day. Sometimes monopod can be helpful to keep you more sturdy and take some heaviness away. The last image in this topic was taken during theater performance rehearsal. I think I had D800 with 70-200mm f2.8 and D7000 with 24-70mm f2.8 that day. I think D800 with 70-200mm f2.8 was on monopod. Sometimes I felt like I am in the circus juggling heavy cameras, lol. I was moving around lot, sometimes sitting, sometimes standing. It did workout great. I got amazing images. Camera shake wasn't an issue, because I didn't try to shoot with with very slow shutter and raised my ISO. Now cameras can handle high ISO pretty well + you can manipulate images in postproduction as well. 

daniela said
Those photos are SO sharp that looks alive, you are almost inside the eyes of the model and my God that's real photography. Thanks for sharing this Oksana, I already learned something just by looking into those pictures.

So... back to Earth, about the D800, is a hell of a camera (I'm looking forward to get one...but first...THE LENSES!)... I didn't heard anything about camera shake and problems with slow shutter speed handholding this camera. It's very common to use this camera in weddings, portraits, studio work, lanscape and architecture photo etc... Huge megapixels... but professional sports and action photographers should go for the D4 because the D800 even with the battery grip is not abble to perform many frames per second. All my friends that are professional wedding photographers use the D800, the D700 and some of them use the D800E for fashion photography because of the repeated patterns of the tissues that optical makes the camera go crazy. If you have problems handholding with slow shutter speed choose only VR lenses.
At the moment I'm with the same problem. Not related with the D800 but with the nikkor 24-70, I'm thinking in getting this one but no VR on it, and I'm very afraid of the 70mm handhold for that 1/30 sec without tripod.  

Hello! 4 years passed and Yeeeey here I am giving you a feedback of the 24-70 nikkor with no VR on the D800. I got one a couple of years ago for my ex-D800 and sold it already because I couldn't handle the weight so at 1/60 I shake a bit... (what a shame) 🙁 and killed the photo. A lovely lens, but no VR no deal for me. D800 is great but heavy (that's why some people shake above 1/60) and gym work isn't enough so... I prefer the D750 with a lighter lens...so please NASA, do invent a lighter glass or I'll be moving to the variable aperture lenses... 🙂 

Congrats with the purchase of your 4×5 camera. 

Have you tried looking on eBay for replacement bellows, I am pretty sure you can find something that will work to fix your camera.

I have two 4×5 cameras myself, I have the same problem with scanning. The scanner I have will not scan anything larger than 120 so I don’t bother scanning at all. I am just contact printing black and whites for now, but saving for Epson V850 scanner.

I don’t know what development tank you use. I recently got SP-445 Compact and am very happy with it. It uses very little chemistry 500ml like you would for a roll of 120 film. Black and white chemistry is cheap but when developing c41 or e6 don’t want to waist that chemistry. The only negative thing about this tank is it only takes 4 sheets at a time but with 4×5 I rarely shoot more in a day anyways.

Thank you!  I actually have ordered a bellows replacement, and the camera is now having the bellows replaced with the one.  Should have it back by the end of the week.

I bought a SP445 tank, and it works great!

Also if you can get your hand on a Polaroid back and some fuji peel apart film FP 100c I really recommend you give it a try It is a ton of fun.

I might look into that down the road, but for now I will just stick with regular film.  I have been research new55 4x5 peel-apart film but it is VERY expensive.

Your cameras look awesome!

And this is one example of some tri-x its just a photo of a negative on a light table taken with an iphone

What a lovely shot!!!  So rich!  You should print that out and put it on the wall

Congrats with the purchase of your 4x5 camera. 

Have you tried looking on eBay for replacement bellows, I am pretty sure you can find something that will work to fix your camera.

I have two 4x5 cameras myself, I have the same problem with scanning. The scanner I have will not scan anything larger than 120 so I don't bother scanning at all. I am just contact printing black and whites for now, but saving for Epson V850 scanner.

I don't know what development tank you use. I recently got SP-445 Compact and am very happy with it. It uses very little chemistry 500ml like you would for a roll of 120 film. Black and white chemistry is cheap but when developing c41 or e6 don't want to waist that chemistry. The only negative thing about this tank is it only takes 4 sheets at a time but with 4x5 I rarely shoot more in a day anyways.

Here is the link for it 

https://shop.stearmanpress.com/products/sp-445-compact-4x5-film-processing-system

Also if you can get your hand on a Polaroid back and some fuji peel apart film FP 100c I really recommend you give it a try It is a ton of fun.

Here are my 4x5 cameras

And this is one example of some tri-x its just a photo of a negative on a light table taken with an iphone

easyexposure said
I like the second image a bit more. It has a bit less contrast and more details in the shadows. Did you do anything to images in post? Is it a scan of the print of film?   

I scanned the negatives in with my flatbed scanner.  Since the scanner can't do 4x5 natively, I had to do the negative in strips.  Then i opened the strips on Photoshop and did a photomerge to put them together.

THen I imported iinto Lightroom.

Changed the white and black points, raised the shadows.  Basic stuff really.

easyexposure said
For some reason I like the image with the leak. This is something cool and artistic about it. 😉  

Ugh I really hate it.  I was so disappointed when I took the film out of the tank to see half of it essentially gone.  I guess I could pass it off as a ghost or something.