A small survey please ...

Some of the previous threads have got me thinking just how digital are we here. I�d like this thread to be a small survey of our processes and markets.

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I�ll jump first � I use a LF camera for transparencies which I then scan myself and either size for client web use, or work the file in PS to outsource for digital printing. I e-mail proofs to clients, webmasters, and print house, with final file burned to CD.

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We�ve already been treated to a number of digital vs. traditional threads recently, so as that famous inspector said � Just the facts, please� . Thanks in advance to all respondents - traditional, digital, and hybrids.

I shoot black & white 4x5 film exclusively and do all traditional

processing and printing to both RC and Fiberbase paper. Labwork is a

custom b&w lab that I run in Cleveland, Ohio. We do quite a bit of

work for clients internationally so I do see that there is a demand

for traditional processes.

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Labwork 216/621-7567

no digital

C1 8x10 with Ilford HP5 processed with a Jobo CPA for contact prints on Azo

#2 and pt/pd

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I pay for this by shooting weddings and a few portraits. I use Canon Eos's

mostly and some Bronica 6x6.

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and of course, my trusty and beloved fleet of Holgas

Toy 8x10G, B+W all the way, RC proofs and fibre prints. Some 120

colour, 35mm B+W IR. Scan the work for the web, sell from the net,

and through local galleries. Will someday (I am sure) end up printing

digitally, but hold out small hope that companies like Berger will

fill the niche when the big-boys (Kodak, Agfa, Ilford) pack it in for

the digital dollar.

habs/haer work, japanese bound books of streetscapes and

portraiture all in 4x5 and 5x7. i do custom b/w processing and

printing mostly on rc and fiber paper. i do have a scanner &

digital camera 35mm and it is pretty much only used for family

snapshots or when i sell some junque on ebay. - - - john

4x5, 6x7, 35mm B&W neg and Color transparencies - roller processed.

Scanned, stored and printed - all with Epson's best.

I guess that makes me a hybrid!

5x7s and 8x10s with Deardorff. Mostly portraits and still lifes.

Ilford FP4+ in pyro. Silver contact prints on Azo in amidol.

Platinum and palladium prints on Arches Platine.... I use a little

Sony digital camera sometimes to capture an object I want to sell on

ebay and, very rarely, to make a picture of one of my traditional

prints to email to somebody. -jeff buckels

i make photographs for advertising, architectural, industrial, and

editorial clients. For large format work I shoot film and have it

scanned on a high end scanner.<P>If I shot catalogs, there is no

question it would mostly if not totally be on digital media.

4x5 and 6x7 work. Velvia for color. HP5+, Acros in XTOL or Pyro,

then scanned.

Color landscapes are shot on film (usually Velvia or Provia)

ranginf rom 6x9 through 8x10 and then most usually drum

scanned and printed 16 x20 on an iris Giclee printer by my fine

art lab, ej arts. Some are also scanned and printed as lightjet

prints, depends ont eh subject matter.

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B&W is processed conventionally in my lab and printed on fiber

paper.

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Animal portraits are shot both 6x9 and digital and printed on

lightjet printer.

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Catalogue work for craftsmen is done digitally for their website

use.

4x5 Canham, shooting primarily landscapes for personal pleasure.

Color work is either Velvia or Provia, drum scanned, and LightJet

output up to 20"x30". Few sales so far, only my own walls have my

work on them. B&W is Tri-X, Jobo processor, HC-110 developer. Still

learning, but getting better.....

Bear in mind that respondants here will not be a representative

sample of all LF photographers. Why? Most pertinent to the survey

topic is the fact that by finding this question and responding to it

online, we are all significant for a likely predisposition to

computer usage.

Older 8x10 and 4x5 Calumets, and a Speed Graphic, for large format

with 8x10 B&W printed with both contact printed for platinum and

silver. Traditional developers, Pyro, D-23, Xtol, HC-110.

Traditional papers, Ilford VC, Forte, and Oriental. Traditional post

printing techniques with Ferri, Thiocarbamide, selenium and gold

toners. Print sizes range from 8x10 to 20x24. Market is myself, and

any prints sold from those I provide to local businesses for art work

on the walls and some architectural and interior consignments.

I also work with all other formats , with my latest rebellion to

technology being the use of a HOLGA camera.

I shoot 8x10s with a Deardorff and aerial 8x10s with a Gowland.

Mostly landscapes and whatever else strikes my interest. I use Tri-x

and tray develop in HC110 or D-76. Mostly contact prints or

enlargements on an old,old Elwood using fiber based graded paper---

I'm currently experimenting with different brands. Ilford seems the

easiest to obtain. Kodak AZO for contacts.

Color and B&W using 2 Nikons, 35mm Canon VT (rangefinder),

Mamiya RB67, Linhof Kardan 4x5, and Deardorff 8x10. Much of

my work is scanned for various web, manipulative, and digital

output purposes. HP5, Bergger BPF, TMX, RDP III, Polaroid 54

& 79, PMK, Azo, etc. Still doing all analog as a starting point, but

doing progressively more with digital as a second part of the

process.

8x10 and 4x5 transparencies... both Velvia and 100VS. Landscapes only.

Drum scanned on a Heidelberg Tango and output to Lightjet on Fuji

Crystal Archive. Sole purpose is fine prints for the gallery

market. 'RIP' Ilfochrome.

I shoot a few weddings each year on the hasselblad 503cw so that I

don't have to raid the regular bank account in order to have fun with

the Sinar F1 8 x 10 with 300 and 480 lenses. Process black and white

with a Jobo. No digital yet. As an attorney I know how to use word

processors but other than that I am computer illiterate. Kevin

Photography for personal pleasure. Shoot 2.25 (old Bronica S2a & 6x9

on 4x5 Arca-Swiss camera) B&W and color 4x5. Getting stronger into

4x5 black and white. Just starting 8x10 B&W contact and enlarging.

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Totally traditional silver media. I want to enjoy silver now and get

more into digital later. (By that time, prices will have come down a

lot.) I think I'm more the settler than the explorer.

Exclusively 4x5 B&W, Toyo VX125 w/ 90SAXL, 150APO, 240 APO, folding

Horseman viewer, Tri-x @ EI 160, Hc110, JOBO film development, all

prints (proofs and final) on Ilford MGIV FB paper processed in a JOBO

CPP-2 processor (yes, really!), selenium toned. Scan final print on

flat bed for web use on personal site or for personal web-based

projects for fun. Use Photoshop for any tweeking of these simple web

only images. No plans for any digital output. Committed to silver

based photography for one reason only, I love it and the hand skills

that go with it.

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Scott

All film, then scanned. 4x5, 35mm, and until recently, MF.

Landscape and macro with Velvia, sometimes Provia or

E100VS. Scan with SprintScan or flatbed, print on Epson 870 or

1280. Occasional Ilfochrome. Starting 8x10 B&W. I shoot as a

hobby with an occasional sale.

Landscapes/portraits in 6x6(old hass MF) and 5x7 techIII, FP4 and HP5

in id11 or HC, FB(some RC) selenium toned. I work enough every day

in software def. to believe that art isn't art if it is too easy.

Tachihara 8x10 triple extension with 5x7 back, 150/300/450 Nikkor

lenses, b/w only. Landscape, exterior architecture, still lifes,

portraits in tradition of Group f/64. Tray processing in wet

darkroom. Tri-X @EI200/D-76 or HC-110 contact printed on enlarger on

Oriental Seagull graded fiber dw papers/Dektol. Toning with RST.

Looking at Beseler MXT 810 enlarger for prints to 20x24, maybe

larger. For personal satisfaction only but would sell a mounted and

matted print when the time is right. Continuing 35mm with Nikon N60

(some b/w darkroom), F3 for copy stand work, trusty old Nikkormat FTN

as LF light meter.

Kodak film loaded in old 8x10 and 4x5 cameras, wet dark room using

kodak chemistry, contact prints and small enlargements. beautiful

fiber based prints very small fine art market. I don't even scan for

the web and our christmas cards have tipped in silver prints. the

only thing digital is this message.

4x5 and 6x17 ; <p>

Black and white ; mainly TMX, Delta 100 and Pan F+, developed in PMK

Pyro or Rodinal, scanned using an Agfa Duoscan HiD, and printed on an

Epson 1160 with Lyson inks on Lyson soft fine art paper. Still

working on getting decent 6x17 scans.<p>

Colour ; mainly Astia and sometimes Velvia, normally sent to a lab

for enlargements.

8x10 and 5x7, black and white only, using Kodak Plus-X developed in

open trays in D-76 and printed (straight) on either Agfa MC Classic

FB, Chicago Albumen Works Centennial POP or handmade albumen. I scan

prints using an HP desktop scanner for reference, web display and

email purposes.