Starting out, where to buy gear?

[Will Frostmill]

Thanks, Jim, that was nice of you.
My only negative experience with a Yashica TLR was with an inaccurate frame advance. But it's not as though it didn't need a CLA, anyway.

[John Kasaian]

Some how I feel better eating sausage for lunch with a Rollei on the table, while a Yashica just goes better with a California Roll. YMMV, of course!

[Alan Gales]

Some how I feel better eating sausage for lunch with a Rollei on the table, while a Yashica just goes better with a California Roll. YMMV, of course!

What if you put your sausage on the roll and add mustard?

[John Kasaian]

What if you put your sausage on the roll and add mustard?

California Roll is sushi with avocado and fish rolled up in in rice, not a sandwich roll
Suddenly, I'm hungry!

[Alan Gales]

California Roll is sushi with avocado and fish rolled up in in rice, not a sandwich roll
Suddenly, I'm hungry!

Ok. I learned something new!

[Mike Anderson]

I say to heck with the idea that "real photographers use film". That's dead. But view camera photographers like to control the plane of the film (or sensor) and the plane of the lens.

[Jim Andrada]

Quote = "I didn't think I could get into LF for just a couple of 100$"

LF is sort of like the "Roach Motel" trap of Photography. For a couple hundred dollars, you can get in, but you can't get out!!!

[jbenedict]

Quote = "I didn't think I could get into LF for just a couple of 100$"

LF is sort of like the "Roach Motel" trap of Photography. For a couple hundred dollars, you can get in, but you can't get out!!!

+1

I agree with the Yashica TLR. In good shape, they would be a budget way to go. I guess the OP needs to decide what he wants. The TLR with roll film would be good and a Speed/Crown with sheet film would be good but a little more fiddley.

[Alan Gales]

I say to heck with the idea that "real photographers use film". That's dead.

Don't say that on APUG!

Believe it or not, there are some who still think that way.

I love that I can shoot both.

[Will Frostmill]

Quote Originally Posted by Jim Andrada View Post
Quote = "I didn't think I could get into LF for just a couple of 100$"

LF is sort of like the "Roach Motel" trap of Photography. For a couple hundred dollars, you can get in, but you can't get out!!!

+1

I agree with the Yashica TLR. In good shape, they would be a budget way to go. I guess the OP needs to decide what he wants. The TLR with roll film would be good and a Speed/Crown with sheet film would be good but a little more fiddley.

+1 to this too.

TLR vs sheet film for me is based around output: 120 film is a pain to scan (i.e. I can't afford a decent scanner), but it great for optical enlargements, sheet film can be scanned on a flatbedt or via a DSLR, and still get "good enough" prints in size and quality. For me.