[rollei_list] Re: OT: Getting into 4x5 for the first time...
- From: "Jeff Kelley" <jlkphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:33:47 -0700
Mark, the prices on large format equipment are amazingingly low. I just
started looking in the last couple weeks and I still can't believe it. You
can probably find a Sinar on ebay for the price of 2 or 3 tanks of gas...no
need to maim anyone!
Jeff
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Usually people start off with a cheap Calumet ³student² camera.
> Then they progress to a mid range better one. A Cambo or a Toyo.
>
> Then on the third tier when they know they¹re going out every weekend with
> their view camera and going through boxes of sheets of film and they¹re a
> near millionaire with shows in galleries do they start thinking about
> Sinar or
> Deardorf or Linhof
>
> Or nowadays Ebony
>
> I shoot with a Cambo NX
> Made in Holland with the Tulips, Windmills, Bicycles, Dykes and Canals.
> Its got numbers up and down it. Not great for the field. Or canals.
>
>
> I'd kill for a Linhof Master Technika
>
> Maim for a Sinar F or P
> Disfigure for an Ebony
>
> Mutilate for a Canham
>
> Spindle for a Horseman
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> markrabiner.com
>
>
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