The Way Of The Dinosaur
This is the 5 x 4 camera that I used to use every day for work but over the years it has been mostly replaced by the digital studio camera. It will eventually go the way of the dinosaur along with all it's relevant accessories , from darkslides to bellows (both concertina and bellows) to loupes to focusing cloths to polaroids to, most importantly of all, sheet film. It is all dying a slow death - everything is getting harder to get hold of, harder to replace and/or more and more expensive.
Strangely, 10 x 8 film is still clinging on and I still have to shoot transparencies in that size, the last photographer at my workplace who still has to use it. I'll be sad when it goes but it will go and will become a sepia toned memory.
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