Folks,
I talk to Ian Wilson, Ebony's English language representative periodically about this and that, and we were talking about the apparent renaissance that LF seems to be undergoing, especially with respect to vintage lens prices and wait times for cameras 8x10 and larger - a topic I recently posted here. Ian made a statement reflecting a trend in Japan that you perhaps wouldn't think typical of the country that makes Nikon, Canon, and all the big digital names.
"There's an interesting new trend developing recently in Japan - people who bought MF backs a year or two ago are now ditching them and returning to LF film because they are sick of spending so much time working on their images with computers. I suppose one of the good things about photography is that it gets you outdoors, but it kind of defeats the purpose if you then have to spend hours processing your images in Photoshop..."
He also stated that orders at Ebony were rising to the point where delivery times were increasing.
Steve
I talk to Ian Wilson, Ebony's English language representative periodically about this and that, and we were talking about the apparent renaissance that LF seems to be undergoing, especially with respect to vintage lens prices and wait times for cameras 8x10 and larger - a topic I recently posted here. Ian made a statement reflecting a trend in Japan that you perhaps wouldn't think typical of the country that makes Nikon, Canon, and all the big digital names.
"There's an interesting new trend developing recently in Japan - people who bought MF backs a year or two ago are now ditching them and returning to LF film because they are sick of spending so much time working on their images with computers. I suppose one of the good things about photography is that it gets you outdoors, but it kind of defeats the purpose if you then have to spend hours processing your images in Photoshop..."
He also stated that orders at Ebony were rising to the point where delivery times were increasing.
Steve