If you've ever seen a picture of Ansel Adams taking a picture -- he used this large box with a wooden tripod. The whole thing looked like the guy was hiking through the desert with a microwave oven and accompanying stand on his shoulder. I've been interested in photography since I was about 12 years old, but I saw my first large-format camera this week. A crusty old guy was taking a picture of a local church with one. I'm not sure how you would even go about finding a developer, but it was so neat to see someone doing things the old fashioned way. I don't miss the anger that came when you got that little Kodak pouch and found you'd left the exposure compensation was off-set by three stops and a 24-exposure roll was ruined. I think he can keep the plates and long hours in the darkroom -- I'll keep my D50 and ability to delete my bad shots.
