With a wooden ~1890s 9×12 tailboard camera, though shooting on medium format film (Ilford Delta 100). Half of the time it works all the time!
This is hand-held, with the slightly modified original Thornton-Pickard shutter, at about 1/200s. Focusing remains slightly problematic – the focusing scale I made is not very accurate and my bad guessing of distances doesn’t help either. And there isn’t much room for error with a 24 cm lens on a negative that large. Lens was at Goerz 6, (or f7.7 for people born after the invention of the airplane). There’s also still light leaks (not on this one but on some others).
All in all I need a bit more practice to use this as a camera in an at least semi-controllable fashion, but we’re getting there.
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