I am by no means an expert, but if I can help, I will.

Large format is great.

Right now I'm just using a wooden 4x5 field camera, Minolta spot meter, and mostly t-max 100/400 black and white films.

If you try the tungsten trick make sure it is PRINT film and not transparency. I made that mistake the first time. Man! those were some BLUE transparencies!

Also you are going to want to be able to either pring them yourself, or have a great deal of interaction with your lab. A straight print from Tungsten film shot in daylight will be nicely tinted with blue. The nice lattitude of color print film allows you to color correct for this and achieve a "normal" print..

There is a lot of room for experimentation....as always. You might also be able to use T transparency and scan them then correct them in photoshop....I've never actually tried this, but I will now......

You could also just buy a haze filter, but as the Large format geeks say...."the more glass on the front of your lens, the less sharp your image will be......"
(when viewed under an electron microscope)

; )

...."the more glass on the front of your lens, the less sharp your image will be......" (when viewed under an electron microscope) Yup, thats why I always carry my handy dandy electron microscope in my pocket.... LOL!.....sorry I couldn't help myself...anyone who has young kids might get the obscure Blues Clues reference.....ahhh, never mind......

uh Michelle, I know a good shrink if you'd like his name... I was a patient of his for two years and look at me now, I'm completely normal, I'm completely normal..I'm completely nor...I'm cured! Jack

Well, I can honestly say I can't wait to get some film in a holder and start some learning. My dad surprised me a couple weeks ago with my grandfathers' old speed graphic. Talk about torture. Everything with it but holders and a meter. L So in the interim I have been studying up on the zone system. A lot. I look forward to slowing down and thinking more through my shots. Can hardly wait for some closeup work. Already have a few ideas milling around the brain for some tungsten film. So be forewarned, now that ya offered, for questions to hit ya now and then. And thanks N, and everyone else here, for ideas, help and everything you share here. It goes not unnoticed. Didge :)