 time for some change. I've got some pretty substantial changes coming up with my photography. As far as gear goes I'm not changing anything fundamentally like I'm not gonna stop shooting film and I'm not gonna ditch digital all together. What I am going to do is change my gear a little bit and I just shipped off my medium format, my Pintak 645 in. Kind of broke my heart to do it, but with a lot of time to think over these last five six months it's more important to me to have a bigger negative and a little more versatility on the other side. So Nori and I are out exploring a new area. Not sure if I'm gonna find a photograph here today. I won't have a couple hours. We're in an old growth forest and I just wanted to kind of take a look see if there's anything out here I want to photograph. Of course Nori is my little companion today. I feel kind of like a flake. I watched my last video on this subject when I had convinced myself that all I just needed is a couple more lenses for my Pintaks and I could just settle on that system and and it would be like a middle ground something to use for everything. But it's become clear to me that I just can't use one system for everything. And I found that the Pintaks although a joy to use and I just really it was just a really great camera to use. It really wasn't it wasn't the best at both things I'm looking for. It wasn't most versatile. It wasn't as compact as the 35 millimeter setup. And the negative was not big enough for some of the enlargements that I'd like to do. So this week I just decided it was time to pack it up and I send it off to KEH with the plan of getting a large format body to start with. I have a lens right now and some film holders. I'll need to get a development tank so I can process my own film and then fill out a large format kit with which will just basically be two or three lenses. I don't see myself need more than that. And then on the other end I'll be using my 35 millimeter either film or digital. It just depends on the shoot. I'm going back to using a system or approach that I kind of started out with years ago. I would take my 4x5 camera out and I would find something I like to shoot. I'd photograph it but I'd also have a long SLR and I used its meter, its spot meter and I would take backup shots on 35 millimeter just in case something happened to my 4x5 and because 4x5 film is pretty expensive and it hasn't got any cheaper. Come on Dory. So I'll have the 35 millimeter either digital a digital file or a film file to back up my 4x5 and starting out I'm not gonna have a lot of lenses so if I need a certain focal length for a shot I will most likely have that in 35 millimeter if it's telephoto or a little wider angle. Then eventually I'll have probably the wide angle covered and maybe a short telephoto. When I can afford it I'll shoot the 4x5 when the conditions are right when it's not too windy but then when it's I don't have to stop shooting if I've got my 35 millimeter so if the conditions aren't right I'll pull out 35 millimeter and use that. I've come to the conclusion that 35 millimeters is good enough. It is smaller than the 645 negative-wise but for the sizes that I use most of the stuff for zines and book size photos it's quite capable and I did prove that to myself with the gear I have. So really for me to shoot 35 millimeter is really is it kind of freezing me up to do things that I really just couldn't do in medium format. When I look at the photos I've made for the last couple years in medium format. A lot of those high percentage of them could have been shot on 4x5 and I have a much bigger negative to work with. So I don't think giving up the medium format is going to be that detrimental to my photography. I think it's going to be a major change from the way I was working. It will be you know carrying two different systems but I've done that before so it shouldn't be that shouldn't be that big a deal. Now this decision has no bearing on how I feel about the Pentax 645 system. I find that very capable camera just a joy to use. In a lot of ways it was like using an SLR 35 millimeter. It's just a little bit more bulky and it it's not something I could use with 4x5 where I know I can put together a pretty compact 35 millimeter setup to use with 4x5 and I really want 4x5. I want that big negative. So something had to go and that's that's the Pentax just has to go. I will probably regret it but I I'm looking forward to working different. It's probably going to take me a while to get set up with the 4x5. I'm leaning towards the Intrapid just because it's really light. It's not as stable as I would like but I know that going in I'm not new to large format it's just been a long time since I've used one. And down the road there's nothing that says I can't go with something else but to start out to get it back into it I need to go pretty affordable. The only thing that I've got to work out still with the 35 millimeter is how I'm going to scan the negatives. I'm not real happy with the flatbed scans so I'm gonna have to figure out how to do an SLR scan. I don't have I don't use Lightroom so I'm going to figure out a way to invert the files with the software I have or get an app for it that if I can find an app that allow me to do it. So that's the stuff I've still got to work out. So when I do shoot 35 millimeter film I still need a way to get some good quality scans. The transition into the 4x5 should go pretty well. It's just gonna take a while even if especially if I order a camera from Intrapid it's gonna take six to eight weeks you know just to get just to get one. This location hasn't been very fruitful as far as compositions go. I haven't found anything really nothing that I really wanted to make a photo of. Oh look at that. Now what are you gonna do? No stay. I think we're too high for the autumn color which I'm not really interested in the color but the light foliage would be nice contrast against the dark woods. So I'm hoping for some of that in the next couple days while there's still a little autumn left. I think I'm gonna have to drop down elevation just a little bit. So we're just trying to set something up so we don't leave empty handed today. These are beautiful trees it's just a finding angle and a clear enough view to actually take advantage of them. On this shot I'm using a 20 millimeter. It's probably just a little bit wide for this location that I'm in. Well I checked another frame. This time I moved up the hill just a few feet and put a 50 millimeter on. Kind of focusing more on this just tree right here on the left. It's just brighter than the rest of the tree so it'll probably texture on the bark should stand a little bit better. The woods kind of get darker as they go back in there. Well I think I'm going to in this video here. I didn't find a lot to photograph but I just I did cover some ground as far as what the plans are in the future. And I just wanted to let you know of my gear change. I'm not that really matters anybody but there will be some changes in the channel in the not too distance future. And I think tomorrow we'll go out and find something to photograph. We'll do a little vlogging tomorrow. But it is pretty neat to walk amongst these old growth forest. These little large trees. It's pretty cool. I've never been here before. It's only about 40 miles from home. I didn't find a lot to photograph but that's probably on me. Oh wait a minute. What is this? Is this a shot? I love this way this vine comes over this log. Check this out. I don't know. Maybe a detail shot. I think maybe I'll photograph it before I leave. I'll stick at the end of this video. So until next time, thanks for coming along for the ride.