Let me start off by saying that I have about 20 yrs of 35mm work and 6 yrs of me dium format experience behind me. About 4 yrs with a b&w darkroom. Now I get t he bug for a larger negative and buy a 4x5 Tachihara field camera. It has a Cal tar 11-E 150mm F6.3 lens. Any opinions and insights into this camera? Now for the question. What would be a good resourse to gain some knowledge of LF camera use. I do my own b&w developing and printing and should be ok there. I have to b uy a new enlarger though. I am going to pick up a Beseler 45M model in the next week. Any suggestions on lens for printing 4x5 negatives. I plan to continue s hooting 35mm and 6x7 but needed the 45m for the 4x5. I already have a scanner wi th 4x5 neg/pos capabilities so I'm ok there. I also wanted to know what your op inions on D-76 were also. I've been using Tmax developer almost excusively but r ead so much on here about 110 and D-76 I was thinking of trying it out. That sh ould give me enough to think about. It should be fun (and frustrating) working in a new format. Thanks for your comments in this new year. Doug
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