Hello All:

I am Lucas Kao, a Taiwanese student studying in Edinburgh, Scotland!

My interest in photography started long ago, but later become a obsession, I upgraded to film completely from Jan 2009 to Oct 2009, shooting mainly 35mm RF and MF SLR/TLR, very satisfying results, but waiting time is longer from exposure to digital print, then sold most of the film gear and downgrade to digital with M8 , a medicore digital camera.

Now I had a project in mind that involve shooting still, set up shot like Gregory Crewdson/Paolo Ventura (at a smaller scale of course), so shooting it on film was the only natural choice. After a bit of researching, the conclusion is it is almost equal or even cheaper to assemble a LF system then buying in the high end MFs (Contaxs, Hasselblad, Mamiya 67, Rollei...), the freedom to use roll film backs (6x9, 6x12) make a LF very versatile if less portable. I had not yet been lucky enough to find a good system, and still researching the forum, but will keep looking!

I also wanted to shoot Edinburgh like Eugene Atget did as

Regards,
Lucas Kao