Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/27
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Jonathan said:>
> The reason I would like to do LF would be to make platinum contact prints
> which appear qualitatively different than silver, and have toyed with the
> idea of getting an 8x10 camera, how I would explain that to my wife I
> haven't yet figured out. Until now I've been able to justify the purchase
of
> new lenses by explaining that it will enable me to take yet better
pictures
> of the kids, but an 8x10! how do you handle that one?
>
> Jonathan Borden
I have a inexpensive 4x5 field camera that I like to use once in a while,
and I keep thinking that I would like to try some platinum/palladium
printing since I don't have an enlarger. However, every time I start
thinking about doing platinum prints I also start thinking about how nice
it would be to have an 8x10 camera. After I mull that around in my head a
bit I start to think it would be even nicer to have an 11x14 camera, and
just think what kind of great workout I'd get if I was hauling a 20x24
camera around! Sanity slowly returns once I start looking at the cost of
cameras, film, holders, lenses, monster tripods etc...I would definately
have a difficult time justifying the cost considering the small amount of
use my current 4x5 gets.
I think I need to really refine my 4x5 work, maybe try a little platinum
printing. If I could produce some really nice portraits of my daughter, I'm
sure my wife would be much more tolerant of me getting a larger camera.
Mark added:
But its the lens that is what is really going to set you back. Of course
you
could sell your enlarger.
If you think of it some of the most successful photography of kids are done
with
the 8x10.
Of course you may not be planning to shoot these kids naked and not
planning on
selling the prints for $10,000 each on the serious gallery market. But if
those
images weren't viable they wouldn't sell for quite so much.
Sometimes the most obvious piece of equipment for a job is the least
obvious.
I'm envious of your plans for platinum prints.
I wonder what someone would pay for an 8x10 palatum print of their kid if
you
walk in the door with one? You'd get a blank check I'm sure. Just show your
wife
one print and you are even I would think, make a print of her too! You
could
creat a sensation in your family! Whose going to not have that print?!
Mark Rabiner
Speaking of Sally Mann, I noticed in the recent issue of View Camera that
in her current work she is using old, uncoated, cheapo beater lenses on her
8x10 for a ethereal, dreamstate kind of look. So maybe I wouldn't have to
go out and buy a nice new multi-thousand dollar Schneider.
To stay somewhat on topic, I always use my M6 alongside the 4x5. I find the
M6 viewfinder and preview lever invaluable in helping to place the tripod
and frame the picture.
Tom Finnegan
Seattle
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