When does LF become LF?

df cardwell said:

Maybe it's time to ponder the myriad ways to order coffee in different places.

"Double-Double"... I know where THAT is...

"Regular".... either Black, Cream and Sugar, or Cream depending where you are.

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I am afraid I'd make an awful secret agent - I simply give away too much

7 & 7 = 7 creams + 7 shuggas
extra-extra = extra-cream and extra-shugga
"keep goin' " means "not enuf, keep goin' "
" when you think you've put too much in, keep goin' its not enuf " = same thing

black eye = drip + 2shots
red eye = drip + 1 shot
small in a big = lots of room

-j

Then there is Starbucks.... how I hate, hate Starbucks! If I am desperate enough to purchase a cup of their foul tasting bean juice, I often turn back from the counter... I am not going to learn your freaking lingo - I am the customer, you are the service provider, YOU try to understand ME! I just want a coffee - I don't want to learn a new language...
So yeah.... all this... uhm, very relevant to LF photography I am sure Then again... most photographers seem to run on coffee... and you can develop film in it... so I guess it can be made to fit... aside from the fact that I started this whole tangent

I don't wish this to be an argument, just a statement of fact.

When I began photography near the beginning of WWII, 4x5 was considered medium format. At that time there were still folding roll film and box cameras which produced this size negative.

The discussion in those days was whether 5x7 was medium or large format. 8X10 and larger was considered large format.

I don't know when the movement to call smaller formats large took place as I never worried about such nomenclature. I suspect it happend in the 50's when the number of sizes of roll films began to lessen, and SLR's like the RB and Rollei SL66 came on the scene.