Why? I've been trying to answer that question.
4x5 is certainly more portable, affordable and has more emulsions and modern lenses going for it.
5X7 ins't far behind and has a decent size negative for contact prints to boot.
11x14 quite literally blows everything away when it comes to portraits and is, to my eyes anyway a more appealing format for the grand landscape.
When it comes to mind blowing aerial images on the ground glass ULFs like 12x20 are...well... "Heroic" (I don't know any other way to describe it!) To experience a sharp 12x20 contact print is pretty darn rear sensory overload!
So why am I (and maybe you too) so taken with the 8x10? What is it that makes this format so loveable? What do you think?
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