How many LF photographers out there?

[Frank Petronio]

I'll make an rough guesstimate at between 40-50K worldwide. I think there are a lot of artists working in isolation and I think a large number of amateur photographers buy the gear and try it for a few months before they give up, but there is a steady stream of newbs to replace them.

In the 1980s I bet the number was 4X that.

[Richard M. Coda]

I know here, in Phoenix, there are at least 50.

[Dave Parker]

Well in 4 years, I have sold over 50,000 LF viewing screens!

Dave

[D. Bryant]

Well in 4 years, I have sold over 50,000 LF viewing screens!

Dave

Wow Dave, I'm impressed.

Don Bryant

[ari velazco]

Here in the Philippines, I personally know 6 LF photographers, from 4x5 to 20x24 format.

[cjbroadbent]

In Milan I now have to order 8x10 TMax in advance from the distributor, 2 boxes at a time. That's a lot of Euro. A couple of of us here are still using up the last precious Polaroid 8x10s for editorials. When that is gone, I imagine 8x10 as a day job will be over.
In Paris, Avenue Beaumarchais (where the camera stores are), hobbyists seem to be dumping the smaller LF gear for 8x10 and larger, to get an edge on digital. Prophot is selling more alternative darkroom gear, as is Silverprint in London. So maybe LF still has a future with LFFs (freaks).
Somebody start a thread: The End Of 8x10 As A Day Job

[Milton Tierney]

As a newbe to LF forum, I can not answer how many LF photogs are in my state. I just returned to LF and to photography after 15 years. I am flabbergasted how much the photo world as changed. It seems that the world as gone almost digital. 15 years ago I could find sheets film and chemicals at all the pro shops. Now I can’t find one good pro shop in the Wash. D.C. area. It seems that the wet processing is going the way of the Dodo. I dug 500 sheets of 15 yrs old 4x5 b/w negs out of my freezer last week, most were still good. I did find one roll of 35mm Kodachrome 25.

[Enrico Faini]

I in Milan have long given up trying to buy film locally. Absolutely nobody keeps 5x7 in stock anymore, and those who are willing to order it cannot guarantee a timeframe for delivery and ask exhorbitantly high prices.

However there still are quite a few photographers who use large format

[Jiri Vasina]

Here in the Czech Republic, I can count me, my brother-in-law (whom I brought to LF) and have briefly had a contact with another one (a lady in that case). There surely are more, but have not heard of them, have not seen them.

So as far as I know we are only 3 LF photographers in the Czech Republic... But I'll try to convert another one (or two), I promise

[butterfly]

I'm in the UK and go out most weekends to shoot LF. I've never seen another LF user! But there must be a few out there. There are only 225 registered users of the UK large format photography web site. So I think in this country the answer could not be more than a few hundred..