There are essentially two issues here. Firstly, would you prefer to faff around in the field or faff around in front of your computer? Secondly, do you also shoot film?

Digital has provided several ways of getting to the same end. Which route you choose is pretty much up to you.

K.

If I stop my Sigma macro down to f/32 muck on the lens does show in the final image.

K.

For Pentax stuff where I have an idea what I might like that works, but I don't know the options for large format lenses so well and it was easier to just browse that category, particularly as there were usually only a couple of hundred entries and most of those where Chinese-made lens boards. Now I have to rely on the vendor remembering to put "large format" in the description!

What is it about human nature that insists on taking something that works perfectly well and messing it up simply for the sake of change?

K.

I really like number one with that excellently handled back-lighting.

K.

Here is the enquiry I sent to ebay:

I used to be able to browse a "lenses->large format" category. Has this been got rid of? It now seems impossible to ask for lenses for a specific type of camera (e.g., 35mm, medium format, large format). Thanks, Kris.

The reply I got was:

Thank you for contacting eBay Customer Support about the item you purchased with your seller.

Kris, I am very much eager to help you with your concern however the the information you supplied is insufficient for us to continue with investigating your case. Please provide the following:

User ID: Trading Partner
Item Number: Item Number
Transaction Amount: Amount
Transaction Date: Date

Should you need further assistance, please call us at 0800 358 6551 to speak to our Customer Support department.

Clearly, they were so eager to help that they didn't actually read the email......

K.

The Darkroom UK are based in Essex and I ship it to them. You can download a postage label from the net so you don't have to pay the postage. I get 6x4 prints and a CD then if there is anything I want to print big re-scan the neg myself.

Best wishes, Kris.

Am I going mad or have ebay changed their categories for the worse? I am sure I used to be able to browse something like 'photography->lenses->large format' but they seem to have done away with the formats altogether. Browsing their "telephoto" category, for example, is useless unless one knows the format of the lens one is after. A 150mm lens is a "standard" lens on 5x4...

Arrgghhh.

Don't even get me started on their pathetic excuse for a help system.

K.

I once visited a distillery in Switzerland that made various potent spirits. They had sent a couple of their staff to Scotland to discover the secrets of whisky making and had started to distil their own. It was marketed under the name of "Swissky"... Somewhat off topic now.

K.

This is the thread on the other forum.

K.

I had thought about doing something like that but decided my crown as forum nerd was not in danger at the moment...

K.