Is large format photography on the rise?

[E. von Hoegh]

I see a lot more "I just bought another camera" posts than "I'm just getting into LF" posts.

My last LF camera purchase was late 1980s, last LF lens was in the late 1990s. Hell, I'm still using frozen 8x10 Tri-X from the '80s.....

[Roger Cole]

You are misquoting (or misinterpreting) me.
It is the darkroom part of film photography, whether Minox or LF, that is druggery for most of us. Not the hauling of 50 pounds of camera, tripod, film, holders, lenses, filters, sunshades, darkcloth, changing bag. meter, gray card, boxes, and bags. Now -- what have I forgotton? I always forget something -- oh yeah, the loupe. Now, what else...?

How can the most important part of the process be considered drudgery?

If you need to ask, then you'll never understand.

Just because Brett said so, doesn't mean it is. I don't find it drudgery at all. Perhaps those that do don't understand.

I'll never understand this attitude. Working in the darkroom is one of the two reasons I avoid digital. Darkroom work is often the most enjoyable part for me, I see the vision I had become reality.

I'm only on page 8 which was a few weeks ago but already ran out of the limit of multiquotes. I agree with E. I love darkroom work. It's quiet, it's meditative, it has a certain magical feel to it, and it gets me away from a damned computer, which is all of my work and much of my other leisure time.