Hi Muzamil
My first foray into LF was with an MPP Mk V camera - one that I now know was a prototype model & never released for general sale! I bought it as part of an outfit for £500 and sold it several years later for £500!
The camera is essentially a box with bellows ideally offering some movements. The movements you need depends upon what you intend to photograph. When I decided to buy a modern LF camera I started buying the lenses before I bought the camera.....
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...as I have done on so many previous occasions. I used the MPP for experimental work and basically used home made glass plates. My inspiration came from a book on spectroscopy - from the days when if you wanted a spectrometer you had to make your own. The book, dating from 1910, explainned how to obtain colour plates which involved a complex process - which I never wish to repeat! I was just interested in the fact that in 1910(primitive) colour photography was possible.... and it predated Kodak! I am totally wedded to buying sheet film now. So much easier.
I only vaguely know Manchester - one of my distant relatives was Head Gardener at Wythenshawe Park in the late 1930s....
Love is an Ebony mounted with a Cooke PS945.......