I just got back from an afternoon shooting some FP4+ at windmills and similar stuff in the county road boondocks a few miles from my house, using my old Super Speed Graphic and a vintage Ektar 203mm. I noticed when I took my stuff out of my truck I had a rip in my shorts from a barbed wire fence, sticktights in my socks, weeds in my shoelaces, and cow poop on one leg of the tripod, not to mention a light coat of dust on just about everything (I was working near gravel roads).
This made me think of the many, many used but totally like new, pristine, unscratched, mint unmarred high-dollar field cameras I saw for sale on the auction place when I was hunting for a beginner 4x5 a while back. I wonder what I'm doing wrong here--I can't seem to keep my gear in that perfect a condition, even when I think I'm being careful. So am I just naturally careless or are some of these folks not ever actually using these cameras after spending all that money on them?
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