So, I had a go at taking a 4x5 still life indoors this afternoon. In the end, I gave up, sadly. I couldn't see the subject clearly enough to focus, even at f/5.6. This is a bit of a pain, as I was thinking it might be quite good to try more indoors shots (nearly wrote "studio", but we're really talking dining table here). Ended up taking the shot on the Pentax MX.
This may partly be because I'm using a coat as a dark cloth, which is pretty difficult to manage. I have my eye on a used dark cloth on fleabay, no bids so far at £25, black and red. Would that be a good buy? I was thinking of black and silver for coolness in summer, but the cheapest of those seem to be £40 new.
I took some test shots on my X10 at around e45mm focal length (roughly equivalent, I thought, to my 135mm lens), with black and white film preset, similar distance. I was very surprised when I looked at the image on the GG screen, how much more of the frame was taken up with the subject. The MX shots were at 70mm, and again the subject was apparently much smaller than on the GG. These were at a distance of around 600 mm. Is there an effect here I haven't understood?