>>4493694The sinar handy only supports up to a 135mm lens(I think) with a 65mm being the most common. You can totally do zone focus with 65mm. There's a very expensive 47mm lens you can get that covers 4x5 as well. Lots of silly/fun use cases and I think it's sort of wasteful not going for gold with large format, but the camera is a fun one to use and very compact for large format. It has a ground glass in the back, so you could take it hiking to save tons of weight and space. Idk what their intended purpose was when they were made. Maybe architecture or something..
>>4493694People will call me schizo, but if you compare a grain free 8x10 print made with enlarged 35mm film and an 8x10 contact print you will see an obvious image quality difference in the two prints. There are also 8x10 enlargers that you could make gigantic grain free prints with, but it is a very difficult and expensive process.
If you're talking about the scan being so huge then yeah it's just overkill, but it can be useful if you're autistic about your technique and want to learn what you did right/wrong.
