Intro

[stansfieldphoto]

Hi all,

Boston area teacher/photographer here. I teach full time high school and recently acquired some 4x5s for school projects. I've been personally shooting LF since 2004 when I enrolled at Brooks Institute. All of the exploring classes were 4x5 based (shortly after I graduated the program switched entirely to digital). I shot some landscapes with a ginormous Sinar monorail camera (with a separate shutter - I forget what model it was) when I first started out (photo attached), and then later got a field camera. I haven't shot much with it since school, but have been shooting more as of late.

[Andrew O'Neill]

Welcome! We've got a pretty good analogue program at the high school I teach at. A very economical film for students to use is X-ray. It's orthochromatic, so your students can develop it in trays under a safe light. You can get a box of 100, 8x10 sheets for about $40, and cut them down to 4x5.

[Ken Lee]

Welcome to the forum. I also live in Massachusetts. There's a good number of members from New England here.