[LargeFormat] Introductions

[philip.lambert]

Hallo Dean!
Does your Tachihara take lenses wider than 90mm and still enable you to use
rising front?  Many 5x4s I tried needed a bag bellows for movements with a
65mm and this is not possible on a wooden field camera. Philip
>
> My name is Dean Cookson and I've been dabbling in photography for 12
> years or so.  Like a number of folks I got my start in small format and
> shot 35mm color slides for a little more than a decade.  For the past
> couple of years I'd been getting an urge to try bigger negs in 1998 I
> traded some old Nikkormat stuff I had for a beat up C330.  It was an
> improvement but about a year ago I took the plunge and picked up an
> entire 4x5 kit (built around a Tachihara woodfield) on Ebay for a great
> price and I haven't touched the 35 or 6x6 since.