I have been interested in LF cameras and bought two books on them. (I also
took the NYIP course, and the old National Camera Camera Repair course -
now
defunct) but I have a few questions that I have wondered about. If you
don't do your own developing and printing, how do you send the exposed
pictures in to a lab? To take the picture you load the film in the
holders,
but do you send the holders to a lab then? If not is there some sort of
light tight envelope that you can get? I have the catalog from FreeStyle
but haven't seen anything like that in there. I don't know if I would
like
LF photography and would not want to invest in all the darkroom stuff if I
was going to only try it for a few years, and then give it up for MF or
just
35mm. Also, on average if you wanted to take lets say six ****trait shots
of
a model, how long would it take you to focus, drop in the film and go
through the whole process of getting six great shots off. The books I
bought are "Using The View Camera" by Steve Simmons and "Large Format
Photography" by Jack Dykinga. Also one more question, how close can a
view
camera focus for macro work? The average 50mm lense on a 35mm will get
down
to about 18 inches with out any closeup filters or a macro lense. I have
seen close up pictures but nothing is said as to how close you can really
get. Oh, one more question, the reason I'm interested in LF is because I
don't like the results I have seen of 35mm shots being blown up to 16X 20.
I would really like to have enlargements made and not look soft.
(Although
I do have one that is a 20 X 30 or so and it is really sharp. I must have
got the dof just right. Right now I'm using Minolta X-700's. If these are
dumb questions, perhaps you could suggest a book that will cover these
questions for a very simple minded person line me. Thanks. Ric in
Wisconsin.
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