Thought I'd say hello.
I am a long time lurker on this forum. I recently created an account but haven't really replied as much as I should. In other words, at all.
Currently I am a student amateur photographer. I have many years of experience with small-format photography but have recently hopped in on the large format train due to recent drops in used LF gear prices. As I said, I am a student and every bit of money saved helps.
My 35mm rig consists of a Canon 1D, 20D, Nikon Nikkormat FTN and Zeiss/Nikon/Vivitar manual focus lenses (with the appropriate adapters to Canon when needed) just to give some idea. That is the last I'll mention of my non-LF gear.
I recently (four months ago or so) stumbled accross a Sinar Norma 4x5" with the Copal shutter and a few Symmars (180, 240), all from 1961-1963. The price was a ridiculously low 300€ and I've been hooked ever since. Besides the Symmars, I don't have any "proper" lenses. Graflex 90mm and 135mm Optars are filling the wide-angle gap until I can find a cheap Super-Angulon of some sort. Yes, I know, it's total sacrilege to use something like the 90/6.8 Optar on a monorail but for the moment, I don't have much choice.
I have some 40 sheets of 9x12cm TMX (dated 2001) left but I mainly use 4x5" Shanghai due to the slightly larger size (more or less noticeable at 90mm). I develop everything in Rodinal, do a quick contact print for archiving and a light table repro with a DSLR for web-sized display. Everything that gets printed is obviously scanned with a proper scanner.
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