Count me in and call it even?

[h2oman]

November 2006: Deciding to get serious about photography, bought my first DSLR

January 2008: Having enjoyed the large format work of Dabvid Muench and Jack Dykinga, decided one month before my 50th birthday to give large format a try. Purchased used 4x5 and 150 lens. Still thinking I wanted to be like them, also purchased a 90 mm.

March 2009: After sending transparency film off for a year, developed film for the first time in my life. Left color transparency film for B&W - that's all I've done since. Use the 240 as often as the 90 now.

So I figure I've transitioned the other way from Jack in about the same time period. He may have bit the dust, but here I am! Of course I don't bring many status points to the LF community...

When people asked I used to explain the LF choice as a way to get finer detail, but now I realize that's not it at all (at least for me). My new explanation is that it's like hunting with a bow or black powder rifle (an easy anology for folks around here!) - it makes no sense if all you are trying to do is put food on the table. The only way it really makes sense is if you look at the overall experience, and somehow the LF experience is special for me.

[jp]

I like that analogy!

[Erik Larsen]

I hear ya with regards to the analogy plus chicks dig it

[Greg Blank]

To us you are more valued than King Jack Keep buying and processing film lots of it!

[Mark Stahlke]

I hear ya with regards to the analogy plus chicks dig it

What? Chicks dig good analogies?
I'll have to work on that.

[Jack Dahlgren]

Some like analogy, others don't.

[Harley Goldman]

Very good analogy!

[Toyon]

I hear ya with regards to the analogy plus chicks dig it

Maybe that's why there are so many women photographers.

[Drew Wiley]

I wouldn't call it a black powder rifle at all, unless you want it to be one (there are
still people doing tintypes). In my case it's more like a 50-cal recoiless sniper rifle. You
only need to get off one good shot.

[Robert Hughes]

But of course, it doesn't matter so much what you've got; bow, rifle or atom bomb. It just matters who fires first.

I dunno if chicks are so crazy for .50 caliber sniper rifles.