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Excellent. Thanks for the input

Thanks Charles. very useful!

How much swing are we talking here?

Oh, btw Mr Parkin. Joe had some very nice words to describe you. I won't say "exactly" what he said otherwise your head might swell

Does it help? Immensely! Thanks for the advice Tim and everyone else :D Tim, I had a quick chat with Joe Cornish at last year's Discovery Day. He did say that I should go to you if I get up and running. Handily enough, there is a flight from Tours to Manchester starting on a regular basis this month...

OK folks, so the amount of help received in my dreaming thread was great! It now leads me onto lens choice. I'm not overly concerned as to what focal length I should go for but I am seeing things such as Copal etc that have me slightly confused. Do you have to mount each lens on a board? I was takin...

OK, thanks everyone for putting in their two eggs. I'll have a long hard think on a camera body.

Next thread...lenses!

Thanks Dave. I might consider that. Especially as I am going to Salisbury in a few weeks time. Swindon is only up the road. Well, the time warp road as it always seems to take bloody ages!

BTW Dave. Are you around during the daytime?

Susie, thanks for the comments on my work :D I'm slowly getting more and more as a freelancer and it is for this reason why I am looking at large format. The other day when I spoke to Dave, I explained that I feel a gap is no becoming evident in my knowledge. And it is a gap that needs sorting! Now,...

When we meet at the end of March I'll have the LF camera with me, if you ask nicely I might let you stroke it :lol: Paul. He's such a charmer :lol: OK, so going back to movements and targeting the landscapers on here. What do you generally use? And a curious one. For that JCB look, what is typicall...

I'm aware of some of his kit and his high use of a 90mm lens. However, I wouldn't know why one would need movements such as front rise or back rise etc. This is my stumbling block.

Oddly enough Andrew, one of the things I would like to do is to use it for 6x12 thus the need for roll film. It's almost getting to that stage whereby it's a "you have to see it to understand it" thing. Unfortunately, I am not in the best yet of being to go through cameras like a dose of salts. Wit...

Oddly enough Andrew, one of the things I would like to do is to use it for 6x12 thus the need for roll film.

It's almost getting to that stage whereby it's a "you have to see it to understand it" thing. Unfortunately, I am not in the best yet of being to go through cameras like a dose of salts.

Well, the XPO is certainly of interest. I had looked at Badger last night but didn't spot it at first glance.

Now it all comes down to movements. I'm pretty much 95% landscape and 5% architecture. Looking at the majority rather than the minority, what movements are generally used for landscape work?

Well, I've had a very interesting phone call with Dave (thanks!) and he started giving me some food for thought. My biggest concern was that I had to go have dinner with the missus, otherwise I'd have quite happily chatted further :D With some of those thoughts in mind, along with how much usage is ...

The biggest problem I have is understanding what movements I would need.

I'm not up to speed on camera movements, so that is my first stumbling block.

Shen Hao cameras intrigue me a lot. They are cost effective and unlike the Ebony, I wouldn't mind if it took a knock or two.

This is why I've still been considering my options. Looking at various things and how everything would come together.