Is the L/F for the more Mature

[Graham.b]

Evening all. Please no a affence at the title, i was wondering if it was the more mature of us. I say that because i look at it this way, years of skill in the photo world. Come to expect better results, no more of what they are looking for.

I think we all can see where this is heading.

Graham

[archphoto]

I don't know, I have been involved with LF since I was 27, 30 years ago.
LF for me stands for deliberate photography, well thought and more expensive than MF.
Still love it dearly, 35mm has always been a hobby format to me.

Peter

[fschifano]

I'm not so sure. I've seen a few youngsters out playing with their view cameras. Admittedly, they are few and far between. But then, LF photographers aren't exactly a common sight. Any time I set up my 4x5, it attracts a lot of (sometimes unwelcome) attention. Anyway, if you want to divorce "maturity" from age, then yes I think so. It takes a certain amount of maturity to appreciate the higher quality that LF can provide, and to NOT be seduced by the instant gratification of that newfangled electronic stuff.

[jp80874]

Oh, but I do long for those younger days when I could have horsed this beast about without back bracing belt and medications. When I was in college some 45 years ago my student job was building a teaching slide library for the Architectural History Department at Johns Hopkins. I read International Phototechnics and dreamed that some day I might own a view camera. Now I am there, but those libraries are mostly built with smaller digital cameras and Photoshop. I must be more mature. I am sure I would have been embarrassed then by using a baby jogger to shuttle this thing about. What really matters is the joy this work brings to the artist and viewer at any age.

John Powers

[Graham.b]

I do not have a L/F but my wife say's it is time. But as you John, meds, for my Arthur and my hands and chest do play a large part of what i can do when i can.
I put a post on last night about up grade to a 6x7. Annemarie say's go for the 5x4, i can all ways carry it when the need is called for. Not really fair that, with all her gear as well, might be tonight i will order the Wista, i did think about the M7II but as above.
Would you call a 5x4 in the big stuff or just scrapping the side.
Could i ask do any one here use their L/F for prints for sale.

Graham

[BradS]

...i look at it this way, years of skill in the photo world. Come to expect better results, no more of what they are looking for.

I think we all can see where this is heading.

Graham

I don't know...I shoot 4x5 mainly because it is fun and makes me think about what I am doing (as opposed to just mindlessly shot gunning as I tend to do with a 35mm SLR) and also because it is easier for me, with my feable skills, to coax a decent looking print from the big negs than from one of those tiny little 35mm negs.

I really wish I had bought a Crown Graphic all those years ago when I bought my first camera - a 35mm SLR.

So, no. I don't think that large format is only for the old..er, mature and skilled. I'm teaching my kids to shoot 4x5 with the Crown...they're 8 and 13...

[Toffle]

Oh, but I do long for those younger days when I could have horsed this beast about without back bracing belt and medications. When I was in college some 45 years ago my student job was building a teaching slide library for the Architectural History Department at Johns Hopkins. I read International Phototechnics and dreamed that some day I might own a view camera. Now I am there, but those libraries are mostly built with smaller digital cameras and Photoshop. I must be more mature. I am sure I would have been embarrassed then by using a baby jogger to shuttle this thing about. What really matters is the joy this work brings to the artist and viewer at any age.

John Powers

Oh, John... If I was only as nimble as you, "horsing" your gear around O'Neal Lake.

Cheers,

[Graham.b]

I really wish I had bought a Crown Graphic all those years ago when I bought my first camera - a 35mm SLR.

So, no. I don't think that large format is only for the old..er, mature and skilled. I'm teaching my kids to shoot 4x5 with the Crown...they're 8 and 13...

Oh how many time's i have looked at that model, if we had everthing we looked at

[ann]

for the mature of attitude and mind.

[Graham.b]

for the mature of attitude and mind.

So very well put, never tell them your age, but how young you feel.

Graham