After years of curiosity about those crazy bellows cameras, I finally came around to large format kind of through the back door. I have been shooting 35 mm for over 20 years, and two things recently happened. I got into pinhole photography and I got into medium format. The medium format photography showed me just what you can get from a larger negative, and the pinhole photography led to a project making a pinhole camera (which is nearly done) from some directions I found online - a camera based on a 4x5 holder.
I then thought, what the hey, maybe I should just get a view camera.
I don't have a view camera, yet, but will probably get one in the next six months or so. I live in Portland, Oregon, USA, and enjoy shooting all sorts of subjects, not least among them the coast, railroads, and the Columbia River Gorge.
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