Who is shooting 20x24 film nowadays?

[Torontoamateur]

I am searching for contemporary 20x24 film photographers. I have found very few. Who is shooting 20x24 film now?

[Tin Can]

some prefer privacy

[Torontoamateur]

I guess bur some would like to display their efforts. I ask because I am seriously considering purchasing a 20x24 and need their advice. SO please do not hijack this thread with your wanting to stifle my question with the first response,

[Torontoamateur]

some prefer privacy

So you want to stifle my search? You are not friendly. I ask you to please not highjack my question.

[Tin Can]

not a hijack, a suggestion

you are making orders

no thread is private

maybe I am shooting 20 X 24...

So you want to stifle my search? You are not friendly. I ask you to please not highjack my question.

[Oren Grad]

IIRC our own Monty McCutchen shoots as large as 20x24, though not sure how much of that is film vs wet plate. Why not ask him?

EDIT: A Google search on "largeformatphotography.info/forum 20x24" will pick up threads here where that size has come up.

[tgtaylor]

I am searching for contemporary 20x24 film photographers. I have found very few. Who is shooting 20x24 film now?

Tracy Storer on this forum shoots 20x24.

[Monty McCutchen]

As Oren kindly states I shoot 20 x 24. I shoot equal parts film for pt/pd, pt/pd gumovers and wet plate collodion (alumitypes and ambrotypes and the occasional glass negative). I’m a quiet but consistent 20 x24 evangelical. I love the format. Love everything about it. The difficulty. The cumbersome hassle. The overcoming. The lack of logic. The uselessness of it all. But they are my windmills I’m chasing and a person needs something useless in their life that is theirs and theirs alone to chase—outcome guaranteed or not. There are plenty of reasons not to do 20 x 24–ignore them and jump in if you have the desire. The ground glass is a world to get lost in that invites magical visits. Process gains equal footing to product with the 20 x 24 format. Portraits become true collaborations with your sitter as they become connected to the event and to their role in the outcome. Still Life’s take on the attributes of intimate landscapes, landscapes an entry into other worlds. You have to turn yourself over to the format which allows for a certain feeling of lost time but when you get in a rhythm the results are truly sublime. I say go for it detractors be damned.

[Thom Bennett]

The best explanation of why anyone would use ULF:

"Love everything about it. The difficulty. The cumbersome hassle. The overcoming. The lack of logic. The uselessness of it all. But they are my windmills I’m chasing and a person needs something useless in their life that is theirs and theirs alone to chase—outcome guaranteed or not."

Thanks for that Monty! I'll remind myself of this when I am crying over yet another ULF screw up.

[36cm2]

I agree, what a wonderful description. Makes me want to pick up a 20x24 camera, jump on a horse and ride to La Mancha - for the landscapes of course.

As Oren kindly states I shoot 20 x 24. I shoot equal parts film for pt/pd, pt/pd gumovers and wet plate collodion (alumitypes and ambrotypes and the occasional glass negative). I’m a quiet but consistent 20 x24 evangelical. I love the format. Love everything about it. The difficulty. The cumbersome hassle. The overcoming. The lack of logic. The uselessness of it all. But they are my windmills I’m chasing and a person needs something useless in their life that is theirs and theirs alone to chase—outcome guaranteed or not. There are plenty of reasons not to do 20 x 24–ignore them and jump in if you have the desire. The ground glass is a world to get lost in that invites magical visits. Process gains equal footing to product with the 20 x 24 format. Portraits become true collaborations with your sitter as they become connected to the event and to their role in the outcome. Still Life’s take on the attributes of intimate landscapes, landscapes an entry into other worlds. You have to turn yourself over to the format which allows for a certain feeling of lost time but when you get in a rhythm the results are truly sublime. I say go for it detractors be damned.