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    The LF Camera you have owned the longest and still do.

    Mine is a 5x7 Deardorff Old Style (NFS) I bought the summer of my junior year in High School 1972. Still have it But retired it a decade or two ago...
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    Re: The LF Camera you have owned the loncest and still do.

    8x10" Gowland, purchased in the 90s some time, still using it alongside various other LF cameras.

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    Re: The LF Camera you have owned the loncest and still do.

    8x10 Improved Empire State plate camera.
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    Re: The LF Camera you have owned the loncest and still do.

    I have a Sinar Norma bought new in Copenhagen 1968. A Sinar P I bought in 1982 and used heavily on a daily basis till 2002 when digital became a matter of survival for a commercial photographer. I still admire this great camera for which I have both 4x5 and 8x10 backs and it is still in an impeccable condition because I always treated it well and sent is to Sinar/Schaffhausen for service. Some times I even use it to shoot 8x10 b&w.

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    Re: The LF Camera you have owned the loncest and still do.

    I've had a Wista RF for nearly two years now...

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    Re: The LF Camera you have owned the loncest and still do.

    I still have the Newton New-Vue bought in 1965, but haven't used the beast in many decades.

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    Re: The LF Camera you have owned the loncest and still do.

    My first LF camera was also a Newton New-Vue, and if I had used a proper camera in college (a Linhof Color), it might have put me off completely. I don't remember what I traded it for, but it was worth it.

    The LF camera I've owned the longest (and still own) is a Calumet CC-400. I haven't used it in decades, but at least I have good memories of using it.

    In real dollars, I paid far more for both of those than I did my current camera, a Sinar F2.

    Rick "always on a budget" Denney

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    Re: The LF Camera you have owned the loncest and still do.

    I think it's my 4x5 Nagaoka, which I hardly ever use now. I bought it around the end of 1996.

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    Re: The LF Camera you have owned the loncest and still do.

    A battered 4x5 Anny Speed Graphic I bought in 1996. It might be leaving soon so the heir to the crown will be a Deardorff V8.
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    Re: The LF Camera you have owned the loncest and still do.

    Toyo-Field 810M with 300mm f5.6 Rodenstock Sironar-N lens that I bought from Sally Mann, I think in 2003. It was the camera and lens she used for the pictures that were published in "Immediate Family".

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