 Well I think I fixed my 4x5 camera. Today we're gonna find out. Today Nori and I are out in the woods. Location we've never been before. We're out here to see if I've got my large-format camera working. My fingers are crossed, my hopes are high. Hopefully I'm not being set up for a major disappointment. Recently I did a video where I was talking about how I added a Fresnel lens to my camera in hopes to make it brighter. And in that video, at the end of the video, I was very disappointed and I was really struggling to make images. I was very disappointed that it wasn't as bright as I had hoped. So what's changed? Well I went out and purchased a new ground glass. My theory is, while the Fresnel lens did help a little bit, my ground glass is pretty old. It's an old camera. And I read somewhere that over time the ground glass can get dimmed. So I've got a new one. It's not a high-end expensive one. I really don't have enough money for that. But I'm really hoping that this new ground glass paired with this Fresnel lens will give me the brightness I need to make compositions with my 4x5 camera. I find it difficult to make compositions if I can't see what I'm trying to make compositions of. I'm going to set a composition up on something today. We'll find out if it's all roses or disappointment. And we're getting a chance to see some areas that I've never been in before and I'm actually kind of like what I see here. I'm not sure what photograph. There's so many ways to go here. This is one of those locations I may have to get back to. I didn't realize this was even here. It's only about 20 miles from where I live. Just made a shot. There's a little bit of water here. This little overflow in the main river. I'm just going to go back to the lighter foliage in the background. I ended up using a polarizing filter on this because it is pretty white as a bug. It really does add kind of a white sheen. I didn't really want it white that white. I don't use a polarizer on the 4x5 very often. So this will be kind of a good experiment too. So far I'm able to compose the shots a lot easier. I think this is working. I'm pretty excited. It's pretty good when I can actually put a polarizing filter on it and still see the image. I'm pretty happy with that. I think I'm going to try to make a couple more shots on this little rock shelf that we're on. I think there's probably multiple shots here. I didn't see anything in the forest that really seemed clean enough for composition. It's pretty cluttered. So I'm going to work in here a little bit. I think there's probably something here. Some more shots here. It's starting to rain. So I kind of just kind of forced a few shots. The good news is I think my camera's not usable. It'll never be bright like a regular SLR kind of camera, but it is much improved. So that old ground glass must have just been just a bit dim. Now we're able to at least see the whole frame. It's pretty easy to focus. The ground glass that I purchased was the e-tones ground glass and that's the same Fresnel lens I bought the Fresnel lens from. I don't know if it's how it compares to other stuff, but it was only about 48 bucks for the ground glass. That's really not too much. Not too much when I'm considering, when I was considering not using the camera more because I just it was just too dark. I think we're in business now. It's still difficult, you know, it's upside down in reverse. It's still a challenge to compose, but it's now it's doable for me anyway. So it's probably gonna be a short video today. Just thought I'd do a little report back on how I'm getting along with this camera because we left it kind of on a sour note last time, and I think we're in business. Now this area that I stopped at, right now I'm in a park next to the area I was in earlier. I'm gonna have to get back in here. I really do think there's a lot of potential back there in the woods. Maybe something for maybe a color shot back in there. When I'm not testing my 4x5, I think I'll explore a little bit more back in there. It's a section of forest I've never been in before. Didn't realize it was even there or had trails into it. So I was actually, this little outing has been pretty productive. I'm getting a lot of information that I didn't have before, but I think I'm gonna head back to the car. It's starting to rain a little bit harder now, and we'll make it back here for too long. So until next time, thanks for coming along for the ride. This is the following day. We got rained out yesterday, so I decided I was gonna come back out here and do a few more photos.