My father was a photographer long before I was around, and never culled his collection of cameras or shots. I have this grey case containing a Speed Graphic, some glass plates, a 120 adaptor, and various other items, and I keep wondering about it. When I was a wee lad I shot with his Yashica TLR and sort of learned the controls on that, but we never got the Speed Graphic out in my time. When he moved to slide film and had children to deal with these got tucked away in favor of a folding Voigtlander and whatever Pentax SLRs were before they were called that. Now I'm realising that I have access to MF and larger IQ, and have wondered about trying them out.
The question on the Speed Graphic is whether it's IQ is worth expending time and money upon. I'll need to buy new darkroom stuff, mine is long gone except for my homemade enlarger timer. And I'll need to relearn film habits after being conditioned to use lots of shutter releases on digital.
The cameras he had, like mine, were all users, not pristine. I doubt they're worth anything to anyone else. So I wondered if the way to make something out of them, besides putting them up on a display shelf, is to revisit their charms.
Any thoughts?