Hello from North of Chicago

[Richard Lindas]

I was lucky to find your forum. Reading the pages brought back the joys of Photography I used to experience. Back in the late 1960's and most of the 1970's I worked as a catalog photographer in downtown Chicago.

My first photography job was at Kranston Studio at 22 West Hubbard in Chicago, I think it's a restaurant now. That's where I learned to use "view cameras" The most common camera we used were 8x10 Deardorf cameras. They had a three film backs 8x10, 5x7 and 4x5. We also had some specialty cameras there were several 11x14 camera and even a 14x20 camera! We had in house color processing and black & white labs.

I have to go now. I'll be spending more time on this forum later.

Thanks for keeping the large format alive.

Rick

[Vick Vickery]

Welcome to group therepy, Rick. No doubt a lot of folks here will enjoy hearing about, and benefiting from, your experiences in catalog photography.

[msk2193]

Welcome Rick

[Mark Fisher]

Welcome from Highland Park

[evan clarke]

Hi Rick,
You may be interested in our group, you are in the center of our area..Evan Clarke

Midwest Large Format Asylum http://www.deepthought.com/smf/index.php

[Charles Hohenstein]

Welcome, Rick.

[Hector.Navarro]

welcome to the forum Rick...