I worked in Europe for 20 years as an architectural photographer using 4x5 inch.
For publications I would send out duplicate slides that I would receive back with ink and scatches.
When I got my first scanner I ended sending slides and gave them a CDRom with my pictures. Sometimes they would send the CDRom back, sometimes not and I didn't care.
When I came to Brazil I realized that the lab closest by was in Sao Paulo, 1000 km away and started shooting digital because that was all I could do.
The work now consists of 30% shooting and 70% computer.
Taking out grafitty from a wall used to be a nightmare, now it takes an hour or so.
My standard lens has become the 42mm eq. on 4x5" , no shifts or tilts.
I miss the grain that give me a feeling of shapness, but my customers love the smoothness of digital.
In April I will go back to Europe and the analogue part of my life, dust off the Sinar P2 and see the RB that I bought some weeks ago for the first time.
It is like living in 2 worlds and both are appealing for their own reasons.
Greetings,
Peter from Goiânia, Brazil
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