Scott, Please forgive my ignorance, but I am puzzled here. Not having any personal experience with a LF camera, I cannot understand what is the point/advantage of the LF camera if 1) you are going to scan the 4"x5" prints and (even if you are going to scan the slides with a high-resolution scanner) 2) you are going to print to 8"x10" only. The only exception is possible joy of using LF.
I always thought that the advantage of a LF camera is that you can blow up the image to really large sizes. For 8"x10", - why not use just a k20/k10/k7? Igor On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Scott Loveless <sdloveless at gmail.com> wrote: > It's me again Margaret... > are you nekkid? > > I'll be sleeping on the porch when this is all done, but I'm shopping > for a LF camera again. 4x5, monorail camera, probably a 270 or 300mm > lens for portraits. Nothing fancy. What is serving as a darkroom > consists of a small enlarger, a tiny sink and almost enough room to > turn around. Given that, I can make contact prints from 4x5 > negatives. > > The dilemma: > > I have neither the space nor money for a large format enlarger. Which > means I'll have to scan it. What do you guys think about scanning > contact prints for web presentation and ink jet printing up to 8x10? > The budget is limited, so if I'm going to buy a scanner, probably a > V700, I'll need to lower the budget for the camera and lens. > > Thanks! > > I'll be right there with the live chicken and peach preserves. > > -- > Scott Loveless -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
