an Oregonian new to LF

[The Dread Pirate Robins]

After years of curiosity about those crazy bellows cameras, I finally came around to large format kind of through the back door. I have been shooting 35 mm for over 20 years, and two things recently happened. I got into pinhole photography and I got into medium format. The medium format photography showed me just what you can get from a larger negative, and the pinhole photography led to a project making a pinhole camera (which is nearly done) from some directions I found online - a camera based on a 4x5 holder.

I then thought, what the hey, maybe I should just get a view camera.

I don't have a view camera, yet, but will probably get one in the next six months or so. I live in Portland, Oregon, USA, and enjoy shooting all sorts of subjects, not least among them the coast, railroads, and the Columbia River Gorge.

[Bryan Lemasters]

Welcome, Farm Boy. Lots of great people here. Just try to avoid the fire swamp, AKA The Lounge.

[The Dread Pirate Robins]

Welcome, Farm Boy. Lots of great people here. Just try to avoid the fire swamp, AKA The Lounge.

Don't forget the Rodents of Unusual Size...

[Hector.Navarro]

welcome to the forum,
greetings from Mexico

[Really Big Cameras]

Welcome from a fellow Oregonian LFer for life.

Shouldn't you be retired and living like a king in Patagonia?

Kerry Thalmann
Really Big Cameras

[Sheldon N]

Welcome!

You should hook up with Kirk Keyes, there's a group of local Portland LF photographers who meet monthly (though I've not been able to attend for a while).

[Kuzano]

Bend, Oregon here. Haven't been here that long myself, but wealth of information and tips/tricks.

[The Dread Pirate Robins]

Thanks for the welcoming comments.

For the Oregonians, I didn't realize there was so much LF around here, but I've met one LF photographer who shops at my wife's bookstore now and then, and I live about a mile from Blue Moon Camera in North Portland, where view cameras are prominently displayed at the front window.

I am unable to make it to the LF gathering in Newport next weekend, but I hope to meet some other LFers soon.

I will look up Kirk Keyes. Is he on this forum?

Adam

[The Dread Pirate Robins]

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Shouldn't you be retired and living like a king in Patagonia?
Really Big Cameras

I am not the REAL Dread Pirate Robins, but I can't very well go around calling myself the Dread Pirate Adam.

[Bryan Lemasters]

I am not the REAL Dread Pirate Robins, but I can't very well go around calling myself the Dread Pirate Adam.

That would be utterly, totally, and in all other ways inconceivable!

Oh man, I need to get a life!