Poll: Why do YOU shoot large format (4x5 or bigger)

[Oren Grad]

None of the options listed.

I like the qualities of contact prints made on ordinary silver-gelatin paper. So I use as large a camera as the prints I want to make, subject to the constraint of how much I have energy to carry and fuss with at any given time.

Now that, in the grand scheme of things, silver-gelatin prints are more or less an "alt process", you could say that this is just a variation on Vaughn's theme.

[David Karp]

It is fun.

[Oren Grad]

It is fun.

That too!

[Tin Can]

Zen

[Two23]

In a winter like this, I hibernate and seldom leave the cave for 2 weeks at a time.

I'm a winter guy--I tend to go inside or only go out at night in summer when it's hot. As for large format, I love using camera gear from the dawn of time. I often wonder who owned the stuff before I did, and what sort of photos they took. Also, everybody is running around taking photos with either a digital camera or a phone. I want to be different.


Kent in SD

[Tin Can]

Worked outside or in unheated buildings year round from 16 into my 40's.

I am half Norwegian from Northern MN. As a child Ice skated on frozen lakes and used way too big crosscountry skies. Mother always told us to go outside and come back for dinner. Any weather.

Now I like to stay at one temp. I have my first car with AC.

Rode motorcycles in snow and ice, it's fun, last time I did that, I fell down at 2am when I decided I was home and spun the tire. Oops.

I left out the yearly NYE motorbike races.

X-Mas, I shot this pic in 1968. Tom and Santa by TIN CAN COLLEGE, on Flickr

I'm a winter guy--I tend to go inside or only go out at night in summer when it's hot. As for large format, I love using camera gear from the dawn of time. I often wonder who owned the stuff before I did, and what sort of photos they took. Also, everybody is running around taking photos with either a digital camera or a phone. I want to be different.


Kent in SD

[Two23]

Worked outside or in unheated buildings year round from 16 into my 40's.

1. I am half Norwegian from Northern MN.

2. Rode motorcycles in snow and ice,

1. Uff da, that explains a lot.

2. I used to, but now only photo them. From last Sunday:



Kent in SD

[mdarnton]

I shoot portraits and the giant camera adds gravity to the situation, with a better result.

[Leszek Vogt]

I happen to enjoy LF....similarly to digital (different reasons and approaches). Used to skate and play hockey on frozen lake and I'm not from Norwegian descent. Although I'm Randy's age, I'm still fantasizing about getting better skates, rip to VAN and skate my butt off.....some more. Last time I checked, they had 17 active rinks.

[Gary Beasley]

Because I can....