[LargeFormat] Money With Menaces

[philip lambert]

You persuaded me!  PL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LNphoto" <LNphoto@twmi.rr.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Money With Menaces


> 
> On Saturday, September 6, 2003, at 04:22  AM, philip lambert wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> Today I spent 5 hours shooting 20 shots--30 sheets of film.  My cost
> >> for film and processing: $150 (I know this will look cheap to Uncle
> >> Dick)  My point is the same 20 shots could have been done on 3 rolls 
> >> of
> >> 120 with my Hassy for less than $25, taken half the time, and without
> >> any loss in image quality.
> >>
> >> If I could have shot it digitally, the hard costs would be zero,
> >> excepting the extra time in Photoshop cleaning up the files. Another
> >> pressure I hadn't considered....Prints from a neg are more than twice
> >> the cost of RA4 prints from digital files.   The point is very
> >> clear....digital is more profitable, at least here.
> >>
> >> So now I'm in the painful process of selling off my extraneous
> >> equipment so I can buy digital.   I look around... some surplus protar
> >> V's might go up, a Minolta shift lens I never used....even a nice 
> >> 250mm
> >> Hassy CF,  but as loudly as the bottom line screams, I still can't let
> >> go of the 5x7 Ansco, the 6x8 Century field or the Deardorff.  At least
> >> not yet.  In my heart, I'm still a Luddite.
> >
> > If you actually prefer film to digital and the cost of 5x4 deters you 
> > why
> > don't you use the Century Graphic 8 on 120.
> >
> 
> Several reasons.  The construction photography I do doesn't need 
> movements, they don't care if the door looks like a keystone or not.
> A 65mm on a Century or 23 Crown with a 6x7 back is only moderately 
> wide.  For extremely wide I could get an XLSW with a 47mm and not have 
> to deal with the bed.
> 
> Or I could use my 500 cm with a 50  supplemented  by an SWC with a 38mm.
> 
> 
> I actually own both set ups.   The Hassy is rigid, dependable and 
> faster than shooting with a Graphex/Supermatic non self cocking shutter.
> 
> Les 
> 
> 
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