Bob wrote: > the whole essence of large format is one shot at a time - setting up, > lighting, exposing one shot, development for the one shot, etc. -- not > the mass processing of roll film much less the batch processing of > digital! Here's where I get frustrated. There's lots of amazing reasons to shoot LF. My personal fave is the fact that a perfectly exposed 4x5 chrome in Provia 400F is downright amazing to look at. What really burns me is that I shoot (primarily) club and arena musicians, and getting them to stand still for this sort of photography is next to impossible. I can picture this scene: "Hey, Mr. Musician, stop dancing around, playing your guitar, and wait for me to get this exposure off!!!" :-) Sure, the slow mentality is great when you have geological time frames to work in. Or when you're capturing a building, bottle of Coke, pair of shoes, etc. What I need to train myself in is the "Weegee" sort of surety so that I can just pop a shot and know that what's on the film is exactly what I saw. Does anybody here shoot 4x5 in a non-controlled environment? Any aspiring press photogs out there that can share their tips on this aspect? Obligatory Rollei point - I tend to shoot my 6008 system only indoors, too. It's too cumbersome for doing concert work. I lean heavily on large (fast) telephoto lenses to get the shots I want and MF lenses would be too cumbersome to carry/use. Call it a small version of my view camera, only with a dedicated roll back and a waist level finder! j --- Jeffrey L. Bromberger jeffrey@xxxxxxxx --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list