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Roger Hicks

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Dear Robert,

A great deal depends on whether you are shooting mono or colour, surely.

In mono you can get film for almost anything -- it's just a question of price -- and it's a lot easier than it used to be to have film cut to size: minimum order quantities are surprisingly small even for weird sizes like 12x15 inch, as little as 50-100 sheets from Bergger for example.

The only way I use my 4x5 inch cameras nowadays is for colour transparency or (in monochrome) with roll-film (6x7, 6x9, 6x12) because I much prefer the quality that I get from 5x7 inch or (as I have noted elsewhere) a 3x enlargement from 56x72mm to give me a whole-plate.

Cheers,

Roger (www.rogerandfrances.com)
 

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Roger Hicks said:
Dear Robert,

A great deal depends on whether you are shooting mono or colour, surely.

In mono you can get film for almost anything -- it's just a question of price -- and it's a lot easier than it used to be to have film cut to size: minimum order quantities are surprisingly small even for weird sizes like 12x15 inch, as little as 50-100 sheets from Bergger for example.

The only way I use my 4x5 inch cameras nowadays is for colour transparency or (in monochrome) with roll-film (6x7, 6x9, 6x12) because I much prefer the quality that I get from 5x7 inch or (as I have noted elsewhere) a 3x enlargement from 56x72mm to give me a whole-plate.

Cheers,

Roger (www.rogerandfrances.com)

Hi Roger,

My comment was a bit "tongue in cheek", I'm well known on APUG as a lover of fine color landscapes, on the order of Joe Cornish and Jack Dykinga. B&W holds very little interest for me. Sure, I could do 5x7 or 8x10, but since I live on a very small island, I have to travel by air everywhere, and you just can't carry those things easily on one.

Glad to have you aboard,
 
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