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Sooooooo...

I a burst of enthusiasm I bought a 5x4 in lockdown...

Joined this great forum, bought lots of gear(oops), took a single lesson in LF photography from Ian (hi Ian!) then got slapped in the face by REALTY!

Full time employment + no kids = ambition. Full time employment + money + dreams = no time, or energy...

OK, 5 years later and the kit shamefully unused I am back on the film horse, just taken lots of rolls of 35 mm (yeah, wash your mouth out) to Take It Easy in Leeds and am buying lots of batteries for my meter and cameras.

Hope my "Born Again"... "Again"... Enthusiasm has legs, looking forward to posting and learning.

Robert, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
 
YorkshireBloke said:
Sooooooo...

I a burst of enthusiasm I bought a 5x4 in lockdown...

Joined this great forum, bought lots of gear(oops), took a single lesson in LF photography from Ian (hi Ian!) then got slapped in the face by REALTY!

Full time employment + no kids = ambition. Full time employment + money + dreams = no time, or energy...

OK, 5 years later and the kit shamefully unused I am back on the film horse, just taken lots of rolls of 35 mm (yeah, wash your mouth out) to Take It Easy in Leeds and am buying lots of batteries for my meter and cameras.

Hope my "Born Again"... "Again"... Enthusiasm has legs, looking forward to posting and learning.

Robert, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
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Hello Robert,
Great to see you back on the scene :)
 
Thanks to all responders, especially those who generously helped last time around - I hope to buy you a coffee one day!
 
Welcome back. Think less and shoot more. Just take your gear out and exercise your creative muscles. To paraphrase Chuck Close, don't sit around waiting for inspiration to strike like a bolt of lightning, just do the work then ideas, mistakes and things will happen which you never expected which will lead you down some paths you'd never have gone down if you had just sat around waiting to be inspired.
 
No shame in taking lots of 35mm ... I do too. You have to get and keep your eye in, 35mm ans indeed medium format is a great way to do that.
 
YorkshireBloke said:
Sooooooo...

I a burst of enthusiasm I bought a 5x4 in lockdown...

Joined this great forum, bought lots of gear(oops), took a single lesson in LF photography from Ian (hi Ian!) then got slapped in the face by REALTY!

Full time employment + no kids = ambition. Full time employment + money + dreams = no time, or energy...

OK, 5 years later and the kit shamefully unused I am back on the film horse, just taken lots of rolls of 35 mm (yeah, wash your mouth out) to Take It Easy in Leeds and am buying lots of batteries for my meter and cameras.

Hope my "Born Again"... "Again"... Enthusiasm has legs, looking forward to posting and learning.

Robert, Barnsley, South Yorkshire
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To echo @Marley's Ghost, shooting 35mm and large format are complementary activities. I use 35mm/120 to develop more immediacy in my visualizing and shooting. This later translates into better LF work. So, I bounce back and forth between 35mm, 6x6, 9x6, 12x9, and 5x4.

For the past 18 months or so it's been almost entirely 35mm and 120 roll film. But with a recent dump of snow, 5x4 calls again both in the form of a well rehabilitated (by me) Crown Graphic with a variety of lenses and a Wisner Technical Field camera with its own variety of lenses.

Like changing one's undergarments regularly, changing formats regularly is good photographic hygiene - it acts to stimulate new ways of working.
 
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Some of the world's great photographs have been made with 35mm cameras. 35mm is just as valid as 5x4 or 10x8, and capable of producing photographs that are just as "good". So no need to apologise for using one Robert.
 
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