Hello from the UK.

**Hoops** · 24-Oct-2012, 00:33

Portrait and fashion photographer, never shot large format but wanting to jump right in .. seems like this is the best place to start.. good to meet you all.

**George Hart** · 24-Oct-2012, 03:08

Welcome Hoops. There's also the UK Large Format forum http://www.lf-photo.org.uk/forum/index.php.

**Hoops** · 24-Oct-2012, 04:20

Cheers George, I'll check it out.

**Fourtoes** · 24-Oct-2012, 08:06

Hello and welcome Hoops.

**IanG** · 24-Oct-2012, 11:09

While in theory there's still a UK Large Format Forum in practice it's died a deat in the past 18 months. The Site admin has zero interest and pages haven't been updated for 5 years..

It's a great shame we need a good UK LF oriented website and were promised it would be revitaised last year, the Forum Moderators statred the process by the site administrator has done nothing. So a site Hostage to one individual.

Ian

**Hoops** · 25-Oct-2012, 00:04

Cheers for the welcome guys.. shame the other forum has it's issues.. You not thought about starting your own maybe?

**Pete Watkins** · 25-Oct-2012, 01:37

Welcome Hoops. This is the Forum, trust Ian, the UK forum is all but dead.
Where are you by the way?
Pete.

**gilestown** · 25-Oct-2012, 01:54

Hello and welcome to the dark slide. double dark slide!

**IanG** · 25-Oct-2012, 07:06

Originally Posted by Hoops

Cheers for the welcome guys.. shame the other forum has it's issues.. You not thought about starting your own maybe?

Yes a few of us discussed the possibility last year, but personally I thought it better to give the current website a chance but in that time the site has declined further with very few new posts each week - sometimes none, except in the Classifieds. Maybe it's time we thought again.

However in the meantime I am working on a new website aimed at users, restorers & collectors of pre-WWII British cameras and lenses etc which will have a forum.

Ian

**Hoops** · 25-Oct-2012, 08:30

Ian that sounds very interesting, my experience with forums is that unless its broad and has lot of people interested it's fairly hard to keep up a level of interest.. something like pre war British cameras is probably best done on wordpress or similar...
Pete thanks for the welcome, I;m from Dorset originally, now living for the most part overseas and traveling for work. How about you?