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Do you look at the prices of digital cameras and cringe? I know I do. As much as I enjoy putting film through, I mean, saving pictures to memory cards, all these toys cost money and someone has to pay for that. Right?

Well, here’s an insightful article by Ken Rockwell about affording that gear and anything else in life. There are several gems in here that are so true.

How to Afford a New Digital Camera and Anything Else for that Matter

So if you have that urge for a new Canon EOS 5D Mark II or a Nikon D700, this article might get you thinking.

This video on how to focus a large format camera by Thomas Christopher Moore gives a very good demonstration of focusing a large format camera on a plane. It shows a practical method of utilizing the Scheimpflug principle. You don’t have to understand the complicated math in the wikipedia article to understand the video.

Here is another resource – text based this time. www.largeformatphotography.info has a good article that explains how to focus the view camera.

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Graflex.org has information about Graflex cameras such as my Super Graphic as well as all the other Graflex models, such as the Anniversary and Crown graphics. The jewels of the site are the Technical Information, Speed Graphic FAQ, Articles, Cameras, and the Help Board. The Help Board is a useful discussion forum. Get familiar with your back button because there is a great amount of material on this site, but the navigation is a little lacking. Navigation issues aside, this site is worth many hours of study.
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