Originally Posted by
abruzzi
my biggest frustration with using 8x10 was specifically viewing the ground glass. if I was under the cloth I had to place my head much further away from the GG than with 4x5 to view the composition, far enough away that I needed to put on glasses to see and I couldn't operate the controls, so 8x10 was a complicated dance of step back, put the glasses on, view the composition, take the glasses off, move close, adjust the camera, goto 10. Whereas operating 4x5 was comfortable doing everyrhing from one position, without my glasses on, except occasionally moving closer with the loupe to check focus. I get that everyone has different processes (and different vision) but I do find it at least slightly amusing that many people have the exact opposite reaction as me. In the very short time I've been doing 5x7, I have found it closer to 4x5 in process than to 8x10.
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