TAKE THIS POLL!!!

[Chris Breitenstein]

I noticed the thread about self-portraits and began wondering about view cameras.

Enjoy!


Yours;

 

[Ray Heath]

I noticed the thread about self-portraits and began wondering about view cameras.

Enjoy!


Yours;

g'day Chris

what poll?

what is your question/comment/interest?

 

[Jim Noel]

Your poll does not list a place for me. I use 4x5, 5x7, 8x10 and 7x17.
The 5x7 gets as much use as all the rest combined.

 

[darinwc]

Ditto! I am multi-format... digital, 35mm, medium, and 4x5.

Right tool for the right job!

 

[Chris Breitenstein]

g'day Chris

what poll?

what is your question/comment/interest?

I noticed the poll regarding individuals who had an interest in shooting self portraits and began wondering what the overall opinion regarding Large format cameras is. In my experience shooting LF is rather "elitist" or "cult like," not that we are any better in any way. And in addition most people who consider themselves well informed photographers (and in fact MANY students majoring or minoring in photography) have no idea what it means when you say "I shoot 4x5" or "I shoot 8x10" etc... I guess my question would be two fold. Is my experience indicative of the entire field? If so, then is this some indication that photography programs need an over hall? perhaps they should be a college in and of themselves, rather then tacking them on to either a communication or art schools.

I originally wanted to see what is the over-arching view on large format cameras in correlation with the gender of the photographer. Then I started thinking and I realized that I only know of two women shooting view cameras (Susan Huber and Paula Chamlee) and came to the conclusion that those would statistics probably be rather predictable and mundane.

Some people are equipment junkies: I happen to be an information junkie just starting his collection.

I hope I answered your question.

Yours;

 

[Chris Breitenstein]

Your poll does not list a place for me. I use 4x5, 5x7, 8x10 and 7x17.
The 5x7 gets as much use as all the rest combined.

I allowed multiple choice in order to keep from having to list too many categories.

Yours;

 

[copake_ham]

Poll?

I thought that's what RFF is for.

Don't they do lots of polls over there? Didn't they do the underwear poll? And the toilet paper poll?

Are we now doing polls here on APUG all the time too?

 

[ragc]

A category stating LF = other formats would have been more appropriate.

 

[k_jupiter]

How can you be this bored?
F**k polls.
LF is what it is.

tim in san jose

 

[John McCallum]

ooo0OOoo

 

[johnnywalker]

I shoot 35mm and 4x5, so I'd be 4.5 on the poll.

 

[colrehogan]

I shoot mostly 5x12, 6.5x8.5 (whole plate) and 8x10 -- and I'm a woman.

 

[nicolai]

Ditto! I am multi-format... digital, 35mm, medium, and 4x5.

Right tool for the right job!

Same here!

 

[removed account4]

i use whatever format might be handy/infront of me at the time ...

 

[Alex Hawley]

Then I started thinking and I realized that I only know of two women shooting view cameras (Susan Huber and Paula Chamlee) -

Chris, there's lots of women who use LF. Here on APUG, there's colrehogan, Shmoo, Dorothy Blum Cooper, and Nicole that I can think of right off the top of the head. I'm sure there are more. Here's a lady who works primarily with Polaroid Type 55.

 

[SuzanneR]

I've played around a bit with 4x5, but tend to reach for MF gear (love the 6x7 format!!) far more frequently. Maybe, when my kids slow down a bit (hah!!) I'll shoot more 4x5. I don't have a way to enlarge them, though, and I'd like to be able to do that as well as contact prints... so that's another reason I haven't committed very many pictures to sheet film. Or I've just opted for Polaroid!!

 

[Ian Grant]

Like many others I shoot almost exclusively 5x4 and 10x8 and there's no section fus in your poll.or

 

[noseoil]

I use milti-format, depends on the setting, subject, light, etc. Will use M/F today for a group portrait. Used 35mm last night to shoot some of the flooding from yesterday's rains. tim

P.S. Ria here on apug shoots a LOT of large format (friend from tucson), but the format varies.

 

[MurrayMinchin]

I use 4x5 for all personal work and a 35mm (K1000) for family snap-shots. My 4x5 is the best camera for me because;

- sheet film means each negative gets appropriate development.
- its negative is large enough for my maximum print size of 16x20.
- it can be carried off trail through the bush all day.
- it fits easily in a sea kayak.
- it shrugs off bucketing rain and 4 foot snowfalls.
- it perfectly suits the way I see and work.
- it's growing ruggedly handsome after so many years of hard use, just like me

Murray

 

[jonw]

I use most formats. This weekend hiking and camping in the Sawtooth Mountain Range of Idaho, I used my V8 Deardorff with 8x10 and 4x5 backs, but for the hike up Iron Creek Trail toward Sawtooth Lake I carried my OM-4with a 50mm macro lens. My body truly appreciated the 35mm on that hike.

 

[panastasia]

Like SuzanneR, I also love 6x7 format but do use a 6x9 monorail view at times - for backpacking uphill - and love the extra control with movements, but this doesn't fit any of the poll catagories listed.

If I decide to move up to "LF" I would probably look for a vintage 8X10 (or 5x7 as a minimum) and do occasional contact prints as I also have no way to enlarge them, and don't intend to use a bigger enlarger than 6x9. I use a 35mm w/28-100 zoom as a sort of hand held sketch camera and enlarge only to optimum resolution 5x7 prints (sketches for later MF work). I'd find it most interesting to compare these 5x7's with a same size contact print. I'm sure the difference would be striking!

 

[sly]

I shoot MORE images in other formats (including digital - easy to shoot quantity in digital!), but 4x5 is my current passion and what I'm working hardest at. I like that I have to take my time, that a handful of images can be a good outing. Sly

 

[Monophoto]

Not trying to flame anyone, but this poll is meaningless.

The structure of the questions is based on the premise that they will be answered by a population that is a cross section of the photographic world. But in fact, respondents self-select, and LF photographers are far more likely to respond than others. Hence, it's not possible to read any meaning at all into the results.

 

[jovo]

Not trying to flame anyone, but this poll is meaningless.

Maybe so, but it's fun to see who has identified themselves as using what they do.

Right now, I'm enjoying the rediscovery of my C220 and square format. I'm sick of schlepping the Shen Hao, and the P67 is getting a rest while I explore 6x6 instead. But, by September I may be using one of todays exiles exclusively. Besides, I didn't notice anyone flaming another's choice, so....eh, what's to hurt?

 

[Sirius Glass]

What about "I have never had the opportunity to try one."?

Steve