Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote: >Until all of us >who've photographed with 12x20, 11x14, 8x10, 5x7, and 4x5 film >have passed from this earth >please refer to 120 film as "medium" format (instead of "large") negs. >We'll be gone soon enough. >Then you'll be old and wow the kids with your "big" films. >;~) >Regards, >George Lottermoser =================================================================================================== I'm not in your league, George (I never shot 11x14 or larger, but did a lot of 4x5 at work, had a 5x7 Seneca view camera that I used for about a year, and took ONE sheet of 8x10 film with my boss's Deardorff), but your post reminded me about my most interesting LF experience. In 1972 I was running a darkroom in the student union, and the administrator of the facility found out we could get access to government surplus photo equipment, so for cheap we obtained a Fairchild F56 aerial camera with a 20" lens that took either 9" roll film or 5x7 sheets in a 12 sheet magazine similar to a Grafmatic. I bought a 25 sheet box of 5x7 Plus-X and shot them all wherever I could find vistas (the lens was of course fixed at infinity). It was a workout. No tripod socket and about 30 pounds of LONG camera. But I only got around to processing four negatives, so the rest of the exposed film has been in the freezer ever since. Maybe when I retire I'll get them developed. ;~) Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Information Technology Services University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt