The Dark Side is calling me

[rthomas]

Today is the first day of Photo 2 class at CPCC (my local community college), and I'm excited about this because I will be using the school's brand-new Toyo 8x10 field camera with 240mm and 360mm lenses. Last semester I took Photo 1 for the darkroom access, and had an opportunity to use a Horseman 4x5 monorail with Schneider lenses, which allowed me to produce some amazing negatives. I now find myself in an odd position: I have no 35mm film and think of my RB67 as a small camera! I am itching to get my hands on this 8x10. Three hours to go!!!

[Sirius Glass]

To the Force of the Dark Slide welcome! The Force of the Dark Slide, impossible to resist! - Yota, Star Wars Episode XXIV, Extreme Exposures

[chioque]

Resistance is futile, better yield

[zsas]

...The Force of the Dark Slide...[/I]

^Love the LF pun, side - slide...he

[Rick A]

May the Schwarz be with you!

[Michael R 1974]

Agree, no point in resisting. 8x10 can be a pain, but there's nothing quite like an 8x10 contact print. It's so exciting just holding an 8x10 negative.

[E. von Hoegh]

..... there's nothing quite like an 8x10 contact print.....

Except for a bigger contact print

[Sirius Glass]

16" x 20" contact print

in Carbon

[Terry Christian]

C-41 negatives are pretty dang awesome, too! LF can be a pain to shoot, but so worth it, and field/press cameras make it relatively easy.

[Augied]

I actually had a similar realization earlier today. I also have an RB67, and I started doing a bit of 4x5 in the fall. Right now I'm taking an intensive cyanotype and platinum/palladium class. We're using medium format, 4x5, 5x7, and 8x10, and suddenly I think of the RB's negatives as tiny. There's a reason that what we now know of as medium format used to be called miniature.