"Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> LF can be expensive but can also be done on a budget (except for the
> film). Despite the raves about modern lenses many of the older ones,
even
> ancient ones, are very good and new ones that cost a fortune are not
> necessary.
I'll share my experience with 4x5 film. First of all, I don't shoot 4x5
color - just bw. I ran across some years ago a store closing out 8x10 bw
film in boxes of 25 sheets. I think it was Forte, iso 200. I bought a
box
(all of ten dollars), cut the film down to 4x5 in the darkroom (cotton
gloves, duct tape, and paper cutter), maintained emulsion orientation to
snip off a bit of the upper right corner, and tried it out. Worked
perfectly. So I went back and bought the eight or so remaining boxes.
Granted, a bit of a bother to have to trim the 8x10 film down to 4x5, but
what a bargain! I think I still have a box or two in the freezer.
And a number of those older lenses are much lighter than the more modern
ones - I prize my 210mm Tessar. Very, very nice images, much lighter than
a
more current lens, and small enough that I don't have to detach it from
the
camera.
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