I'm affraid it won't be long

[Drew Wiley]

Wow! More and more this is starting to look like the "Anti-Large Format Forum", as well as, "Since I'm tired of lugging that thing around, I might as well pretend that the gadget hanging around my neck is just as good". Dream on. Some of you guys should stick to the parking lot in Yosemite and not injure yourself.

[jcoldslabs]

Why one photographs is so much more important than what one photographs with.

Amen!

Jonathan

[Andrew O'Neill]

It's sad but it's the new reality.

Really? Not for me it isn't.

[thomasfallon]

I am a newbie on this forum. BUT... I have to call you out. I own the highest res Canon ever made. It could not wipe the ass of a 4x5 camera. It could not even hold the jock of my Fuji 680.

[Oren Grad]

Use whatever system that best speaks to one's own personal vision. That is what counts. Why one photographs is so much more important than what one photographs with...and eventually one discovers what system best satisfies the why.

+1

[Corran]

You can enjoy, and even prefer, LF while still accepting that digital photography has reached the point of equaling or beating film systems even much larger than said digital (in simple resolution/sharpness, which doesn't really matter). But we already hashed this topic to death in the Lounge, so maybe this should just get locked now.

[Louis Pacilla]

People will line up to fight/bid for your stuff. Might as well let it get used.

I see your point, but I look at resale values right now and they're not great. And if something happens, like copal shutters stop being made and there's a scarcity of modern LF optics, the price trend could reverse, right in time for me to decide I want to do another LF project.

Also, I have more sentimental attachment to the camera and lenses than I do to the darkroom equipment that I sold.

I don't have anything so exotic that I should feel bad about depriving the world of my stuff ...

I think jp's post was directed to the OP and not you Paul. At least that's how I read it.

As far as I'm concerned I'm thrilled for the OP.

[ROL]

I'm curious why you felt the need to post that here. Are you asking for help, trying to mend the ways of the lost, or what? What are you after? Approval, rejection, argument?

Mike

!!!

In response to the OP... well, I guess there's a tool for everything.

[AndreasT]

.....I'll miss composing the image on the ground glass and setting the fstop,shutter speed and I miss pressing the cable release....

I find it sad another one gone.
However I find you gave one of the good reasons to stay with LF..
Then again everyone should feel free to go where they want. Recently reading about Ralph Lambrecht going over to digital. It is a pity.

[Brian C. Miller]

I find it sad another one gone.
However I find you gave one of the good reasons to stay with LF..
Then again everyone should feel free to go where they want. Recently reading about Ralph Lambrecht going over to digital. It is a pity.

But Ralph had a stroke. He had trouble loading film into his camera.