Opinions on upgrading from 4x5 to 8x10

[DrTang]

Commercial Ektar - 12 or 14 inch


'nuff said

[Certain Exposures]

[ I removed this because I just noticed you specifically asked for opinions from people who made the jump. ]

[gary mulder]

Once upon a time I had a Sinar p2 8x10 and the money to buy boxes of Polaroid. Oh Boy that was a treatment But I also remember dragging a heavy weight through Italian mud in Tuscany.

[Tin Can]

My V4 810 Intrepid is far lighter than most of my 8X10 boxes

Film holders are the real big diff

I like good wood 8X10 holders only in wood cameras

as it wears less

and plastic holders in metal cameras are more compatible

[Salmo22]

I've had the good fortune of making photographs with a friends 8x10. Compared to my 4x5, I found it a superior experience. Don't get me wrong, I very much enjoy making photographs with my 4x5. But an image being projected onto the ground glass of an 8x10 is magical - at least it was to me. Down the road, I'll get an 8x10 and put my 4x5 into mothballs for a time. Making contact prints with an 8x10 and enlargements of my 6x6 negatives is the stuff of my dreams.