My very first MF photo

Terence said:

It's a long slippery slope. . Soon enough you're the photographic version of the old lady with 2000 cats.

Ask me how I know.

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Oh yeah.

Started out with 35, wen to 4x5, back to 35mm for years (keeping the 4x5 of course). Then one fateful trip to Japam.. Found a c220, used, in Shinjuku...
65mm lens, yowzer. Well, I nor have 37 cameras (two with meters, the original Nikon and a Fujica I bought to mount a very nice Russian portrait lens that arrived on my doorstop one day). All the rest? the 3x4's (six in number) the 5x7s (2), a bunch of Nettars for my every day haul around cameras, the C33, the 80mm, 135mm and 180mm lens to complete the system, the Yashica 635 (Great camera), etc, etc...

I don't have aproblem, I know I don't. Remember, the first step is recognizing you have aproblem, I don't want to be cured.

tim in san jose

I had an inkling that I had a problem. But after contemplating this thread and counting up my cameras, I think it's undniable. I'm going to shed a few in the coming weeks . . . so I can make room for new ones. As much as I like my C330's (yes, multiple), the new Hassie is what I reach for now . . . along with the Rolleicords (yes . . . multiple) and the Nettars (yes . . . [gulp] . . . multiple). I think I need to unsubscribe from eBay and Paypal . . .

I used to keep my vices limited to caffeine and beer. Ahhh, the good old days.

My first camera was a well-used Spartus #4 (6x9 folder, no lens to speak of... the Holga of folders). I was 8 and it was 1962 and I didn't know better - - I thought all negatives were large enough to simply contact print. From there I moved through a host of 35mm cameras, doing some decent work, but I have always come back to MF. Nowadays, I reach for my C220 or C3 first, then think about something else second (not surprisingly, the second choice is an Agfa/Ansco 120 folder or my Zorki-4 RF).

I included this background because I have never been able to decide if it is MF that I gravitate to solely because of its qualities (all described well the posts above) or if it is because it was my first format and there is comfort in it.

My son now shoots 4x5 instead of 35mm and when we go out together, I'm now the faster of the two of us with my 120 - - not that it is a race, as we have discovered...

I don't have a problem. I still have only 4 35mm-cameras, 9 MF and 11 LF.

Hang on - is that the postman?