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  • Amateur Photographer

    Caught on film

    Jan 05, 2021 4 minutes

    Mike Crawford is a London-based photographer and specialist printer working primarily in urban landscape and portraiture. His work has been exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. For over 20 years he has run Lighthouse Darkroom, one of the UK’s premier photographic labs, working for many leading photographers on numerous exhibitions and publications. www.mike-crawford.co.uk

    When compared to 35mm and medium format, shooting with a 5x4in camera is certainly not as straightforward, but it has many advantages. Primary is the quality of the larger negative or transparency. Approximately 14 35mm negatives could fit onto just one sheet of 5x4in, so when enlarged,

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