I am relatively new to participating in APUG. For a few years i have been coming here to get answers to problems or learning how i should do one thing or another. The gallery started really captivating my interest as i tried to understand better the photographs i take. I am LF, 4x5 has been my history but took to 8x10 for a variety of reasons of converging circumstances including i still did not have a darkroom to set up an enlarger in. But i would rather use my 4x5. The 8x10 is absolutely beautiful, but big, heavy, inconvenient, expensive cost of consumables, and somewhat less flexible to use than my 4x5. Recently, i bought a Chamonix 4x5 camera, for the specific first purpose of taking to White Sands National Monument. I want so much to make a photograph in that place that is worthy of printing and hanging on a wall in my home. The business trip i planned to fall in on to get to White Sands was cancelled and i haven't had another opportunity. But i absolutely love using the Chamonix. i am envious of HiHo's MF capability. I have wanted to get into MF for the longest time, but won't because, like he says, the $$ limitations of branching out formats is just too much. I had to choose, and sheet film won out for no other reason but my investment in LF. I may become like Ansel Adams or Brett Weston and just get tired or too old to carry the LF around, and then switch. Until i have a proper darkroom, roll film is not in my near future. But boy would l love to have an Ikonta that takes 6x9! You have signed onto an inestimably valuable resource here at apug. Make the very best of your time here.
That doesn't mean lack of respect or interest, just have my hands full enough now. It will prob. be an area I pay attention to, learn from, but don't dive into.
