brent8927
Member
I've asked a number of beginner questions here, but I have yet another! (As a side note, I am now a subscriber to APUG, so I supporting the community from which I get all my answers!)
Anyway, I went on my first LF shoot today, which was quite fun, until it just started raining out of nowhere... Anyway, I took polaroids of all my shots and personally I didn't really feel like they were benifiting me. I felt like it just took up more time. I know large format photography is inheritantly slow but not using my polaroid equipment would sure save me some space in my backpack (at the moment my Photo Trekker is full and I only have one lens, which stays on the camera, and I do plan to get at least one more lens, though hopefully two more). Plus... I didn't really enjoy using the polaroid film, and I much prefer to take two pictures (different exposures) of each subject.
I'd like to know how many people out there actually use polaroid film for personal work. I know for commercial work it is something very handy to have but I'm thinking of just doing away with my polaroid equipment. Is this a bad choice? I do have a lot of experience metering because I used a Bronica S2A and then a Hasselblad for two years (I'm a college student by the way) so I was always using a handheld meter.
I have a feeling that people are going to tell me to do what works best for me and to do what I enjoy most, which would mean not using polaroids, but as a LF beginner I'm also wondering if this would be a bad choice. Thanks in advance!
Brent
Anyway, I went on my first LF shoot today, which was quite fun, until it just started raining out of nowhere... Anyway, I took polaroids of all my shots and personally I didn't really feel like they were benifiting me. I felt like it just took up more time. I know large format photography is inheritantly slow but not using my polaroid equipment would sure save me some space in my backpack (at the moment my Photo Trekker is full and I only have one lens, which stays on the camera, and I do plan to get at least one more lens, though hopefully two more). Plus... I didn't really enjoy using the polaroid film, and I much prefer to take two pictures (different exposures) of each subject.
I'd like to know how many people out there actually use polaroid film for personal work. I know for commercial work it is something very handy to have but I'm thinking of just doing away with my polaroid equipment. Is this a bad choice? I do have a lot of experience metering because I used a Bronica S2A and then a Hasselblad for two years (I'm a college student by the way) so I was always using a handheld meter.
I have a feeling that people are going to tell me to do what works best for me and to do what I enjoy most, which would mean not using polaroids, but as a LF beginner I'm also wondering if this would be a bad choice. Thanks in advance!
Brent