Your most orphaned format?

moki · Apr 6, 2012

It's 4,5x6 on 120 film for me. I prefer 6x6 instead. Getting a few more exposures out of a roll is no reason to use smaller formats, since usually 12 frames are just enough and I can still crop a little, when the square format doesn't fit a subject. When I need more frames and no great quality for large prints, I'll use 35mm film or even 35mm half frame when I'm in that shoot-everything-no-matter-what mood.

TheFlyingCamera · Apr 6, 2012

11x14. I've got a complete camera, lens, and glass plate holders that can do double duty with film, and even a partial box of 11x14 film. But it's such a pain in the ass to use it, the camera sits around just looking pretty and not doing anything. My 5x12 and whole plate cameras get more use, and they're far stranger sizes.

Vaughn · Apr 6, 2012

35mm, now that one does not need to shoot slides of one's prints anymore.

c6h6o3 · Apr 6, 2012

35mm, but the Hasselblad is feeling ever increasingly more abandoned. I've decided to keep it because the prices of used medium format digital backs for it are beginning to approach the doable range on Ebay.

jgjbowen · Apr 6, 2012

4x5....Much prefer 5x7 or 8x10 on a tripod and 35mm or 120 for speed

Vaughn · Apr 6, 2012

I answered 35mm, John, but you are right about 4x5. I have not used my 4x5 since the period between when my 5x7 was stolen and when I got a 8x10 using the insurance money (1995).

Wade D · Apr 8, 2012

120 (6x6 & 6x9) & 4x5. I have all of the gear but have been concentrating on 35mm for several years. Most of it due to lack of reliable transportation. Lots of 35mm subjects withing hiking distance of home that don't really justify the other formats.
That is changing soon though. A rebuilt transmission for my Jeep 4x4 is not far off. Took a long time to save up the $2200 for it and some transfer case parts. Then I can get to some places I've been itching to photograph with the other formats.

ektachrome · Apr 8, 2012

110. AAAAHHHH a royal pain in the rear to scan!

Danielle · Apr 8, 2012

35mm, I only tend to shoot roll film.

Still meaning to shoot a few rolls through it occasionally.

eclarke · Apr 8, 2012

My 8x10..I will almost always use my 11x14 instead.

mathomas · Apr 9, 2012

35mm. Love the gear. Hate the tiny negs.

Peltigera · Apr 10, 2012

Orphan format? I don't have one. Probably means I haven't bought enough old cameras yet.

dpurdy · Apr 10, 2012

I actually read through all 9 pages of this. It is interesting.

I have a very nice Nikon F100 who's point in my life was slides and wedding candids. It doesn't get used at all anymore nice camera to hold though

Also 4x5 which used to be my bread and butter commercial camera now is too small for still life and too large for landscape for me.

Dennis

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