Hi,
I'm shooting a lot of landscape and have been thinking of giving LF a try, as this seems to give the best possible quality and I'm often disappointed by the results from my DSLR. I have read quite a few resources (mainly on this website and forum) but haven't found exactly what I'm looking for, and I'm hoping you could help
Here is my situation: I want to give LF a fair try, but I don't want to blow thousands of euros to discover that I won't bother taking pictures with it, so am looking for something very cheap to start with, and will then consider upgrading if it is really what I want to do. At the moment, I am exclusively interested in landscape for LF (I'm happy to use 35mm for portrait/street and don't do so much of architecture or macro), so I'm not sure that having all the movements would be so important. Small size and weight are paramount, as I plan to hike, bike and perhaps even climb with it, as well as take it on far travels. This is perhaps not as important for a starter camera, but even though I try to be as careful as possible with all my gear, it tends to see pretty bad conditions every now and then and I wouldn't want it to fail on me at bad times.
Unfortunately, I can't take photography classes (I'm living in Denmark and don't speak the language, and besides I'm not sure there are any available) and the local photography club doesn't want to touch film with sticks anymore. The big photo store has some gear, but it's either very expensive or very bulky (full list is at http://products.photografica.com/sho...GroupGuid=5524 if you want to take a look), so at the moment, it looks like ebay.
From what I've read, it looks like a field camera is the way to go, but since they're all quite expensive (by my standards), I was thinking that a graphic view would be the best way to get started.
Your thoughts would be more than welcome!
Thanks,
/Alexandre
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