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    Large format assignments?!

    Have anyone got a large format assignments in 2011? Do anyone use it for commercial photography? For big posters, advertising etc.. Or maby it is digitalized - scan backs etc.. Please tell me how the LF is doing in digital slr age!

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    Re: Large format assignments?!

    My last one was in 2010. It was for a poster that was reproduced to about 40"x50." I will be shooting some portraits with LF this year but it is my decision, not my client's.

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    Its been about 4 years for me.
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    Excuse me for asking. The payment for your assignments was adequate (hight) to the LF equipment that you use? Or maybe it was low paid?

    I am wondering is there a place for LF in commercial use anymore?

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    Re: Large format assignments?!

    Quote Originally Posted by Łukasz Owsianka View Post
    Excuse me for asking. The payment for your assignments was adequate (hight) to the LF equipment that you use? Or maybe it was low paid?

    I am wondering is there a place for LF in commercial use anymore?
    No one wants anything other than files anymore and so how you get that file is far less relevant than the unique images you produce. For me at this point I would charge a big premium to shoot film as the workflow is more involved and there are no labs left locally so the film would have to be shipped off for processing. For my personal work the workflow is irrelevant.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kirk Gittings View Post
    No one wants anything other than files anymore and so how you get that file is far less relevant than the unique images you produce. For me at this point I would charge a big premium to shoot film as the workflow is more involved and there are no labs left locally so the film would have to be shipped off for processing. For my personal work the workflow is irrelevant.
    Some art directors are aware of particular photographers' use of LF film and will hire them because of that. Yes, a premium or at least some line items in the estimate is appropriate for film, processing and quality scanning. In Chicago there are still labs like Gamma Imaging doing E-6 and drum scanning on a very professional level but time and $$ needs to be worked into the estimate and the assignment's time frame. For me that's local but you're right, you can't get 3-hour E-6 processing & delivery at a local pro lab everywhere anymore.

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    Re: Large format assignments?!

    this is 2012, fuji has discontinued their 4x5 instant film and kodak filed chapter 11 yesterday. I know of one guy who sometimes gets to shoot 4x5 industrial work but not often.
    The answer is no.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vinny View Post
    this is 2012, fuji has discontinued their 4x5 instant film and kodak filed chapter 11 yesterday. I know of one guy who sometimes gets to shoot 4x5 industrial work but not often.
    The answer is no.

    Fuji 4x5 instant film is discontinued?! I made 6 months ago a pinhole camera for it. And shoot only two packs.

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    2011 i shot a campaign for american airlines on 4x5''. i got the job because i offered to shoot film. also 2011 i travelled through europe and the states to shoot caverns for wired magazine on 4x5''. after that they sent me to ecuador to shoot a drug submarine on 4x5''. fun. film for ever!

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    Quote Originally Posted by morlinghaus View Post
    2011 i shot a campaign for american airlines on 4x5''. i got the job because i offered to shoot film. also 2011 i travelled through europe and the states to shoot caverns for wired magazine on 4x5''. after that they sent me to ecuador to shoot a drug submarine on 4x5''. fun. film for ever!
    I think you got the job because of your unique vision.
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