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June 14, 2009
It is a cold and wet Sunday in Adelaide today. So there is next to no chance for me to begin to do any of the large format urbanscape work that I had planned to do with the old and battered Linhof 5x4 Technika field camera.
Instead we have a portrait from my personal life taken from the archives:
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Agtet, Sturt St Adelaide, 2008
For those interested, the photo was shot on a medium format camera---a Rolleflex 6006 with a Zeiss Distagon 40m lens. I had just bought the camera and I was learning how to use it.
The personal makes a break from the more theoretical posts of late. A bit of light relief, actually, from the heavy going. I do need to lighten up.
As an aside, as the photography world moves to digital and there are less and less large format shooters, large format equipment is dropping in price across the board, including Linhof's Technika's. Most Technika users these days are fine art photographers who prefer ground glass focusing for careful composition.The digital storm sure has left analog opportunity in its wake. Does this then creates a niche market in the analogue space?
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hi Gary,
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also, i cannot link to thought factory