Australian large format forum

welly · Dec 20, 2011

Hi chaps,

Not sure if this is appropriate or in the right place or anything else but wanted to share an online forum that I've started up (as there appears to be a bit of call for it) at http://aussielargeformat.hostingdelivered.com/ if you're in Australia and want to chat with other LF photographers down under.

Cheers,

Welly

tomalophicon · Dec 20, 2011

Great.

SMBooth · Dec 20, 2011

Great but we also have one right here. Go to groups and look at Leaf Shutter LF Australia.
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Poisson Du Jour · Dec 20, 2011

Great but we also have one right here. Go to groups and look at Leaf Shutter LF Australia.
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

How peculiar. I'd never heard of it. Then I clicked on the link and found I am actually a member of it. You learn something new and educational here every day...

munz6869 · Dec 20, 2011

aaargh - another productivity-killer!! (I have signed up immediately...)

Marc!

SMBooth · Dec 20, 2011

Poisson Du Jour said:
How peculiar. I'd never heard of it. Then I clicked on the link and found I am actually a member of it. You learn something new and educational here every day...

You don't own a LF camera...yet...

Poisson Du Jour · Dec 20, 2011

munz6869 said:
aaargh - another productivity-killer!! (I have signed up immediately...)

Marc!

Marc, you need discipline. Where is your other half that carries a big stick?

Poisson Du Jour · Dec 20, 2011

SMBooth said:
You don't own a LF camera...yet...

...yet...
It is perhaps tellling how darned close I probably came to landing in LF after months of deliberation, instead opting for a cautionary upgrade to MF first.
Anyways, LF will be a mid-year acquisition in 2012.

munz6869 · Dec 20, 2011

You should get a Wista Gary - everybody else has

Marc!

Poisson Du Jour · Dec 20, 2011

munz6869 said:
You should get a Wista Gary - everybody else has

Marc!

Patience please, son. Patience. A lot of little things to be done, to be learnt with MF first!

EDIT: Where do Wistas come from, Marc?

Wyno · Dec 20, 2011

Gary, Gary, Gary, just bypass the small formats and jump straight into 8x10, you know you want to.
Mike

Kevin Caulfield · Dec 20, 2011

Gary, Wistas come from the same place as Fuji, Japan. If you can't beat us, join us.

Poisson Du Jour · Dec 20, 2011

Kevin Caulfield said:
Gary, Wistas come from the same place as Fuji, Japan. If you can't beat us, join us.

No, no, no, no. I mean where is the retail pop-up here in Australia for Wistas?
Or does one have to bootscoot around FleaBay??

Kevin Caulfield · Dec 20, 2011

I'm not sure if they have an agent as such in Australia, but I'm pretty sure you could get somebody to import one for you. I bought mine from a fellow APUGer.

munz6869 · Dec 21, 2011

I bought mine from Dead Link Removed in the US....

Marc!

Poisson Du Jour · Dec 21, 2011

munz6869 said:
I bought mine from Dead Link Removed in the US....

Marc!

Ta Marc! I have bookmarked the 45DX. These prices are excellent now the dollar is dancing on the parity ballroom floor.
Still, I have much work to do with MF first, but mid-2012 has some exciting acquisitions lined up.

John Austin · Dec 21, 2011

I might join, but this is already here and could be made to work better - I come to APUG regularly to scab bits of dead cameras to keep mine working

Except in this case I am scabbing end frames off dead Sinar bellows to modify my brand new Tackyhara to make it into a functional camera instead of a BBC period drama prop'

On the bright side, if anyone is traveling in WA and needs to hire a most luxurious darkroom equipped for all formats up to 10x8" please contact me via here

John

munz6869 · Dec 21, 2011

Yeah - when I got mine the AU$ was still kinda low... I ended up buying the 45DXIII, for the graflok back, and after three years of good use, I've never used anything but standard film holders... so it was kind of unnecessary, except I also have the flip up hood, which is awesome. I know other models have detachable bellows, and they would be great - my 65mm is rather squishy with regular bellows...

Hey look - an LF discussion on APUG

Marc!

tomalophicon · Dec 21, 2011

munz6869 said:
Yeah - when I got mine the AU$ was still kinda low... I ended up buying the 45DXIII, for the graflok back, and after three years of good use, I've never used anything but standard film holders... so it was kind of unnecessary, except I also have the flip up hood, which is awesome. I know other models have detachable bellows, and they would be great - my 65mm is rather squishy with regular bellows...

Hey look - an LF discussion on APUG

Marc!

That's off-topic here now

welly · Jul 26, 2012

Just an update. It seems using a free forum host wasn't wise and they took a dive early this week. So have relocated the forum to a new URL on a new host (which isn't free).

Dead Link Removed

Cheers

Dan Quan · Jul 26, 2012

Poisson Du Jour said:
How peculiar. I'd never heard of it. Then I clicked on the link and found I am actually a member of it. You learn something new and educational here every day...

Wow! Same thing happened with my first marriage...

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