Is the L/F for the more Mature

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DanielStone

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maturity doesn't come with age, regrettably..

i had some dumbas$ old lady cut me off, then proceed to flip me off in her mirror on the freeway the other day. I still have no idea why, I was going slower than she was. I don't have any bumper stickers. who knows?

but I'm 21, and getting to love 4x5(and eventually 8x10) more every day I use it! and I've been told by others much older than I that they think me mature. at times I could argue that :D.

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NOPE! I wish I could have afforded a 'dorff when I was in college...I would have had a lot more time to take photographs way bck then (when that last mastodon slid into the tar pits )
 

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Maturity does usually bring more patience, but I am sorry I waited until middle age to try LF.
 

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maturity doesn't come with age, regrettably..

i had some dumbas$ old lady cut me off, then proceed to flip me off in her mirror on the freeway the other day. I still have no idea why, I was going slower than she was. I don't have any bumper stickers. who knows?

-Dan

Location: southern california.

that sums it up.
 

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I bought my first 4x5 when I was about 20. I had used a crown graphic once in a high school class and never got over the image quality. I'm now on my 6th and probably last 4x5, owned an 8x10 for a while, and have a 1905-ish 5x7 hanging around. Now that I'm "mature," I find myself opting for lighter solutions most of the time. I want to be more spontaneous. I still use the 4x5 for those shots where only a view camera will do.

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This is an interesting discussion to follow. I don't own a LF but am finding myself more and more tempted in that direction. My staple format is currently 6x7 in an RB67.

I don't know whether I'm "mature" :smile: I am somewhere between "youthful" and "middle aged" in the mid-30s. But as time passes, I find that I get more gratification from hobbies which entail slowing down and doing things in a more deliberate fashion. Cooking food which takes a couple of days to prepare. Brewing beer which takes months to mature. And, of course, taking photographs in a way which forces me to slow down, think through what is on the ground glass, and then either patiently process (B&W) or wait for a lab (Colour).

Although I've always had a bit of a traditionalist streak, I don't think that I had the patience in my 20s. And in my 30s I'm finding pleasure in retreating from the acceleration and pressure of work in slower pursuits.

So now I'm trying to tempt a pro I know into selling me his no-longer-used 4x5 :smile:
 
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