Well, the subject is a tiny bit misleading, though I am looking to buy a 4x5 for the first time. My girlfriend is graduating from a pretty bigtime photo school , and I was considering purchasing for her a 4x5 camera for Christmas/Birthday/A ny_other_gift_giving_occasion_for_quite_some_time. She's getting ready to enter the world of the professional photographer, and is realizing that she will soon be without the luxury of going to the Photo buildin g on campus and checking out cameras/lights/etc. Her big love (and talent in my opinion) is doing studio work, still life, food photo and shes made several ref rences to absolutely dreaming of getting her own large format camera. I am a co mputer guy, so a lot of this stuff is like latin to me, but I sat down with her and got her to talk about the kind of things that were important, brands, bellow s, lenses, lensboards and on and on. Anyways, to cut to the chase and ask an ac tual question: I would be much indebted to anyone who could point me in the direction of any go od reading material on selecting the right camera, and any other information tha t might lead me to knock her proverbial socks off. I'm very interested in the p rospects of purchasing a used camera, but I'm quite fearful of being ripped off. If people know of nice, reputable places (other than Ebay, as that would give me a coronary) to look for used gear, as well as what I should be looking for in a "complete" package that wouldn't require lots of other "accessory" purchases on her behalf. I know shes looking for a "lens", in the 150 range, but aside fr om that all I know to look for is "camera and lens". Brand suggestions on good quality 4x5 cameras for an aspiring professional are also appreciated. I apolog ize for the length, but I've got a million questions and you good people seem to be very generous in your answers. Thank you very much for your consideration.
-Andrew Mead
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