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    Re: Any benefit to 8x10 over 4x5 if not contact printing?

    Quote Originally Posted by welly View Post
    Ok, I'm pretty much sold. It's lucky I don't have a wife I suppose.
    There you go! An 8x10 major chick-magnet...with room for two under the darkcloth!

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    Re: Any benefit to 8x10 over 4x5 if not contact printing?

    Quote Originally Posted by Vaughn View Post
    There you go! An 8x10 major chick-magnet...
    Absolutely. I love the looks I get when I tell them I have a 9 1/2" Dagor.
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    Re: Any benefit to 8x10 over 4x5 if not contact printing?

    I have a 12 inch Ektar. They tend to wince when I mention that.

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    Re: Any benefit to 8x10 over 4x5 if not contact printing?

    ... and when in Europe, I mention my 300mm... but they seem less impressed.

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    Re: Any benefit to 8x10 over 4x5 if not contact printing?

    Quote Originally Posted by BrianShaw View Post
    I have a 12 inch Ektar. They tend to wince when I mention that.
    I have 12" and 14" Dagors, plus a 16 1/2" Artar. But I'm basically a modest person.
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    Re: Any benefit to 8x10 over 4x5 if not contact printing?

    But seriously... in the absense of a desire to contact print I look at 8x10 as an opportinity to have to live with more constrained film options than 4x5. Mybe I need further education... who knows.

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    Re: Any benefit to 8x10 over 4x5 if not contact printing?

    Quote Originally Posted by E. von Hoegh View Post
    I have 12" and 14" Dagors, plus a 16 1/2" Artar. But I'm basically a modest person.
    I'm out. No sense trying to compete with that. I was just about to brag on my size 12 shoes, but thought better of it.

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    Re: Any benefit to 8x10 over 4x5 if not contact printing?

    p.s. to the anonymous PMer... leave belt size out of the discussion. Belt size is correllated with appetite more than anything else.

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    Re: Any benefit to 8x10 over 4x5 if not contact printing?

    Quote Originally Posted by BrianShaw View Post
    But seriously... in the absense of a desire to contact print I look at 8x10 as an apportinity to have to live with more constrained film options than 4x5. Mybe I need further education... who knows.
    Learning to use an 8x10 is a bit like learning to target shoot with a flintlock. It will improve your technique tremendously, and everything else will be easy in comparison. The only film you need is Tri-X.
    One man's Mede is another man's Persian.

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    Re: Any benefit to 8x10 over 4x5 if not contact printing?

    Here's a moderately hi-res scan from 8x10" I posted a few years ago, with four sizes to choose from, and the largest doesn't really come close to showing the full resolution of the neg, or the maximum resolution possible with an 8x10" camera. The camera is an ultralight 8x10" Gowland and the lens was probably a 12" Gold Dot Dagor and the scanner was an Agfa Duoscan--nothing really modern or state of the art for when I made the photo (2004). It's just what you get without working too hard.--

    http://www.davidagoldfarb.com/photo/imviaduct.htm

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