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Invest in 4x5 equipment?


I believe Clyde Butcher shoots MF digital now ...
 
gbroadbridge said:
I believe Clyde Butcher shoots MF digital now ...
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Yes he's gotten to old to handle LF.
I've seen both his digital and chemical prints and they're really outstanding up to 5 or 6 feet wide in his Venice, Florida gallery.
 
I'm watching carefully the cat posts as well!!!!!!
 
For a little cross-pollination here's a cat appreciation photo by Cartier-Bresson.....
 
Don't get me going. Every time there's a bird or wildlife documentary on the TV, one of my cats watches intently, and then tries to figure out how to get inside the TV, assuming real birds are somewhere in there. The other night the local news was showing infrared night shots of a mother mountain lion and her cubs roaming around the neighborhood. My cat was trying to swat a the tail of one of them - seemed to be a nice play partner, not realizing the real scale of those critters.
 
You folks just don’t pick the right animals for large-format portraiture. It can be done:



(OK, to be fair, this shot was handheld with a Speed Graphic, so it could have been a faster-moving subject. I don’t seem ever to have taken a good cat picture on LF though.)

-NT
 
Cat fur is great for bellows, even darkrooms, filmholders, cleaning camera lenses etc. Saves you from spending a lot of unnecessary money on special digital creative apps simulating cat hair all over your images.
 
Not to be a stick in the mud, but to get back on topic - I just bought a new 4x5 non-folding camera, and I intend to shoot both 4x5 and MF with my 6x12 back. I already have a bunch of lenses, so no need for that. But contrary to the thread title, I don't consider it an investment because I won't make any money off of using it or selling it (eventually), for me, it's an expense not an investment.
 

I think the term "investment" in this context has more to do with your personal investment in time and effort to learn to use the tool, not the monetary costs incurred.
 
chuckroast said:
I think the term "investment" in this context has more to do with your personal investment in time and effort to learn to use the tool, not the monetary costs incurred.
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Well if that is the context, then I do intend to invest my time in using it. I don't think the learning curve will be that steep since it will be about the fifth 4x5 camera I have owned...
 

You think that's bad? I have a pet parrot, and everytime I watch Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", he absolutely joins in for the entire movie. By the end I think he's going to join then in rebelling against the humans.
 
Looks like your shutter was at 1/2 second.
 
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