Righteo... the 4x5 must go. Time for the 8x10!!!

tony lockerbie · Jan 9, 2008

Vet173 is quite right, never sell them, just accumulate...accumulate...accumulate! Dang, I feel so inadequate with my 5x4, talk about size envy.
Tony

Nicole · Jan 9, 2008

Vet173 my house isn't big enough to own all cameras. I have to make room for the 8x10. Alex, yeah.... I know you did....! Kev thank you for the tip. JD that's great, thanks. I'm really looking forward to Foto-3!

JohnArs · Jan 9, 2008

Hi Nicole

To sell the 4x5 is the wrong desicion, you should expand your house thats the right thing to do! Everybody here can tell you that you never have to much cams!

Happy hunting for the 8x10!

Cheers Armin

jgjbowen · Jan 9, 2008

One more suggestion,

By the time Foto3 rolls around, Richard Ritter should have his ULW (Ultra Light Weight) 8x10 camera finished. It uses Carbon Fiber Tubes for the rail system. I believe Richard will be at Foto3, just be sure to check it out prior to making a purchase. I have one of Richard's 7x17 Carbon Fiber cameras and it weighs less than my Zone VI 8x10. They really have interesting engineering.

Good luck and have fun with your quest.

phfitz · Jan 9, 2008

Nicole,

"Vet173 my house isn't big enough to own all cameras. I have to make room for the 8x10."

Aviar, Celor, Cooke, Dogmar, Heliar, P&S, Verito, Vitax, ect...
The list of purpose built 8x10 portrait lenses goes on and on and on and on....

Have fun with the hunt.

Wyno · Jan 10, 2008

See Nicole, I told you it would happen. It's only the fact that I can't enlarge that worries me with the 8x10, apart from that it's wonderful. As for carrying it long distances, that's just a matter of getting fit. I took mine out to the back of the You Yangs and hiked 4 k's to take 2 photos yesterday. I was about 400 metres east and 150 metres above where Tom Hanks and Steven Speilberg were filming for their next movie. Machine guns and explosions going off while I'm trying to take pictures.
Anyway, back to the camera. If you thought that the 4x5 made you think about what you were taking, the 8x10 makes you think even more, but the results are worth it, no contest.
Good luck with your choice.
Mike

David Brown · Jan 10, 2008

Oh, Nicole, Nicole, Nicole ...

It's a cult. Don't you see?

They don't want you to sell one camera to get another, you must keep them all. Expand your house if you must. Your children are getting too much food anyway, right? :rolleyes:

I'm out happily shooting my roll film, and next to me is a colleague/friend with his 8x10, 7x11, 7x17, or 12x20. Or whatever, they all look alike to me.

"David, come stick your head under the darkcloth. It won't hurt. You'll like it. We promise. Bwahahahahaha ..."

haris · Jan 11, 2008

What they say about importance of size...

Seriously, 8x10 is my choice too and reason for me is, among others, avoiding enlarger. I really don't have space in my house and nerve too to deal with transport of 4x6 or 5x7 enlarger from abroad...

John Kasaian · Jan 11, 2008

8x10 rocks! It is my photographic weapon of choice for just about everything. Some older 8x10 cameras you might want to look for are:
Deardorff
Kodak Master View
Century Universal
Agfa Ansco Universal
Kodak 2D
HAve fun!

Bandicoot · Jan 11, 2008

Nicole said:
Vet173 my house isn't big enough to own all cameras. I have to make room for the 8x10.

But your 4x5 could live inside the new 10x8 when you're not using them...

Peter

Righteo... the 4x5 must go. Time for the 8x10!!!

haris

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