Hi from Düsseldorf in Germany,
some years ago ,I began with photography and I knew nearly nothing about it.
I was making abstract paintings for years.In addition I wanted to make pictures of nature.
To make realistic paintings seems to boring for me.So I thought about making photos.
One day,by chance, I saw an article about field cameras,and I thought :That's it.
Some days later I made a visit to a camera shop and said : "A field camera please."
They could only offer new ones,except an used Sinar F 4x5 with an 150 Apo Symmar.
Price was o.K. and so I bought it.
I hadn't got a clue about about all that.Only the certainty that this was the right way for me,to photograph nature.
And it was.
I read some books and asked a friend who was making photos for a long time.
The first months I only took black and white polaroids.So I could directly see, what was wrong.Then I took polaroid 55 film and made my first negatives.

sanchi