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Digital · Photography

It’s that copse again

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I’ve shared pictures of this same copse of trees on a few occasions, and here it is again.

Slightly different this time in that it’s a digital image, taken with my newly acquired (but pre-owned) Nikon D810, with which I’m going to attempt some DSLR scanning of 35mm negatives (and perhaps medium format too at some point if all goes well).

It would be a shame to use it just for scanning negs though as it’s a pretty accomplished camera, despite the model originally launching back in 2014, and I quite fancy doing some landscape photography with it when time and conditions allow.

I’ll post more on how the neg scanning goes once I have everything I need.

Copse

Nikon D810 and Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-f/5.6 D.

Taken on 14 March 2026

4x5 Large Format · Film photography · Photography

Taking the big camera down a country lane

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It’s been some time since I shot any large format photographs. This is mostly down to a lack of time rather than desire – each shot takes so much time to set up, that an outing with the Chamonix rarely returns more than four images. On the date I took the picture below, the number was one!

I had intended to take more but, due to the aforementioned complexity of setting up a shot, by the time I’d taken this one a large cloud had passed in front of the sun, blocking the light. It also brought a drifting veil of rain that I hoped might pass by without affecting the location I was at, but my luck was out and I was soon hurriedly packing everything away as the shower arrived.

The shot below is certainly not the best I’ve taken, and it’s not the first time I’ve photographed this particular scene (see here for a less leafy variant). That said, at least everything is in focus!

It is great to see the sheer level of detail that large format film can capture, though. Click through to the full-size version on Flickr.

The lane past the copse

Chamonix 045n-1, Fujinon NW 135mm f/5.6 & Ilford Delta 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10mins @ 20°

Taken on 7 July 2024

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Drystone wall and copse

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Apologies to anyone expecting the second part of my post covering the walk between Elton and Robin Hood’s Stride. That should be here tomorrow – I got waylaid today, unfortunately.

Here instead is another photo taken during the walk but which didn’t feature in the first half of the post published yesterday.

Copse

Olympus XA3 & Ilford HP5+ (@800asa). Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10mins @ 20°

Taken on 26 March 2024