GP810HP

GIBELLINI MECHANICS

BLACK WHITE EMOTIONS

A true work of art whose ageing will only be witnessed by time.

It’s all due to the special “Platinum Palladium” printmaking technique: platinum and palladium salts react to the photosensitivity of UV light to create an extremely durable image of the maximum artistic and aesthetic quality. One of the particular features of the process is the way in which the photosensitive emulsion of platinum and palladium salts is applied to the paper by brush. This creates a characteristic, uneven black border around the image which resembles brush strokes, making each of your prints unique and inimitable.

LARGE FORMAT CAMERAS

The art of photography began with large format cameras, which were subsequently downsized for the sake of convenience, to make them more portable, in versions with film and, more recently, the digital cameras we all know. A large format camera uses analogue film measuring 4×5” (10x12cm) to 20×24” (50x60cm). This size offers a number of benefits in terms of the resolution and three-dimensionality of the resulting image, as well as its spatial qualities. The predominant large format is 8×10” (20x25cm), a size which produces excellent results while maintaining the right compromise when it comes to portability and set-up. The key features of a large format camera are high resolution, three-dimensionality and the possibility of moving the front part of the camera (lens plane) and the rear part (film plane) to correct perspective, adjusting focal planes and creating refined effects in the image such as blur, correction of convergence, and image composition.

LARGE FORMAT CAMERAS

RESOLUTION

An 8×10” (200x250mm) film can contain much more information than a professional reflex camera (20x24mm). This makes it possible to obtain a highly detailed negative that can be used to produce blow-ups and extra-large prints without sacrificing quality and resolution.

The analogue medium, the gelatin silver film on which the photographic image is impressed, which must be loaded in a film holder in the darkroom prior to use, gives the image a three- dimensional quality and a range of hues that is clearly superior to that of a modern digital sensor, qualities for which it is widely appreciated by professional photographers.

DEPTH OF FIELD

The separation of planes obtained with a large format camera is unrivalled. The spatial and three-dimensional qualities give the resulting image an appearance of reality that allows the viewer to focus on every single detail, every little subtlety of the subject photographed, producing a more harmonious result.

MOVEMENTS

A key advantage of the view camera is the fact that the lens plane and the focal plane can move completely independently of one another. This means the lens and the film can move and rotate in completely different directions, creating effects and results in the image that can only be obtained with this type of camera.

The GP810HP has 8 degrees of freedom: 4 movements on the lens plane and 4 on the film plane.

Each of these movements generates a particular effect or result in the image. For example, convergence of buildings can be corrected in architectural photography, elements that are far apart can be put on the same focal plane, or faces can be blurred in portraits.