I guess this is a bargain. It's the first time I opened a shutter on a Large Format camera. I wanted to get into LF and I was picking up bargains when I found them. After spending about $250 on a broken Calumet 4x5, a Rodenstock 210mm lens, a couple of holders, a Majestic tripod and a Yankee daylight tank, I tried it out in my driveway. My neighbor's mailbox looked kind of interesting to me. It's built out of an old stitching machine that closed burlap bags with bailing wire.
I scanned the negative on my cheapo flatbed that would only backlight wide enough for medium format:
I was pretty impressed with the detail LF could do:
I'd call this a bargain shoot example. It's also what got me hooked.
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