He sounds like a great guy. I'm sure he would say that the vision is the key thing, but you can tell that he valued craft in order to complete that vision, nobody spends decades carrying a 5x7" camera around and re-formulating ancient developers if they don't have a clear idea of what they want as the end result !
Well, I have just bought a condenser 138S , so there's no turning back on that. I needed a new project.
I have found the combination of doing my B&W on film, especially larger formats, meshes well with doing colour on digital SLR. It's very useful exercise for the brain to switch between the two every few days. In the past I used to try to do some colour work on 120, alongside the B&W shots, but too often i just took colour & B&W shots of the same thing on two film backs. I didn't work, because they are really different animals that required different subjects and different visualisation.
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