Welcome.
Ask as much as you need to know. Somebody here will have an answer. You may get more than one, and all of them will be right.
My own best advice would be to dive right in and make the mistakes. Make as many as you can. You will certainly make mistakes; it's a necessary part of becoming an LF photographer, and it will make your questions much more interesting.
If you've ordered an Intrepid, you still have plenty of time left to sort out everything else.
Your choice of camera will have surprisingly little effect on the final images. An LF camera is just a bag full of darkness with a door at one end to let some of it out.
You'll need a reasonably sturdy tripod, but happily the Intrepid's demands on sturdiness are minimal. You'll need a lens, but you might consider a pinhole to start. 150mm is the normal focal length and it's probably best to avoid starting with an extreme focal length. Only you will know what sort of image you prefer. As the experience of LF is so different from other cameras, you may like to wait a little before getting a second lens, to see what kind of images your own camera prefers. Your lens will be very unhappy without a cable release.
You will need a meter. There are meters available as apps for your iPhone and they work quite well. You may want to progress to a hand held spot meter as you gain more experience. Some people say they use their DSLR as a meter, but this seems rather odd to me, like towing a Mini behind the Bentley.
Then you'll need a dark cloth. Almost anything opaque will do, and there are all sorts of models available with all sorts of opinions on which is best. Elsewhere on the web there are suggestions that you pull your T-shirt over you head but this should not be attempted in front of impressionable strangers.
You'll need something to magnify the screen for focusing. The naked eye can be unreliable. About 4x to 6x magnification will be about right. You can spend a surprising amount on a top-class loupe, but almost anything will suffice to begin. Some people use a pair those cheap reading glasses.
Naturally, you'll need film holders. Intrepid sell new Toyo holders which are excellent, but you may care to look on Ebay. They should be in good condition. Nothing is worse than a long day out, capturing masterpieces, then finding them ruined by light leaks. How many you need is a personal matter.
You need something to carry all this around safely.
You will need film, of course. You will need a reliable supply of darkness to load it into the holders. And it needs to be processed. This gibberish is already too long, so no advice on that at the moment.
There are all sorts of goodies you may aspire to eventually; filters, grads, polarisers, woolly hats, The Big Stopper (if you like chicken soup) and so on. They won't be needed until you need them. Save your money and use more film.
It will help the learning process if you make brief notes as you make the images.
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