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My Nagaoka 4x5 is probably my rarest and fanciest camera, except perhaps my Mamiya 645. It's a very lightweight "field camera", meaning a large-format view camera that folds into a compact form for taking outside of a studio. Which is good, because I don't have a studio or any studio lights as an extremely amateur photographer. Presently, I have taken very few photos with it, but hope to use it more in the future.
This is a self-portrait I took recently with it. I don't currently have a 4x5 developing tank, so I processed it in trays in a totally dark room. The process did seem to damage the film a bit, probably from the nature of the wet film being handled a lot while moving it between the chemicals, but I still think it turned out very nice. It was scanned with my Epson V600- another challenge, since the V600's negative area is not large enough for large format. I cut a custom negative holder out of construction paper and scanned it in two halves, before stitching them together into the final image you see here. Bonus points if you can tell where the split is.
