James: Just what in the world is your wife dazzled by? I know for a fact that whatever camera her sister is using does NOT produce 35mm quality prints, unless it takes 12 megapixel images. What...
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James: Just what in the world is your wife dazzled by? I know for a fact that whatever camera her sister is using does NOT produce 35mm quality prints, unless it takes 12 megapixel images. What...
Dear Eric, Thank you (honestly) for correcting me. . it's Gorman, then isn't it? It's best to know thine enemy by his right name. . you gave me a chuckle:)
MMm. I see one of our posters has been reading the Foveon ad copy, endorsed by photographer Greg Corman on a joke of an interview on NPR? Let's see, if you can get 6 megapixels from 35mm - too...
With all due respect, please allow me to correct some misperceptions here. I am friends with Mark Viera, a latter-day associate of George Hurrell's who recently published a book titled "Hurrell's...
Neil:
Thanks for mentioning Joel! His name, actually, is Sternfeld, not Steinfeld, but I'm glad someone mentioned him nonetheless. He's a good friend of mine, and was my mentor in college. He...
John: YES, YOU SHOULD! Get that "old" 4x5 out. The basic principles of photography have never changed - nothing "new," fancy, or "sophisticated" will make a damned bit of difference when the light ...
If you had ever seen one of his prints in person, Dave, you would have had no doubts:) Joel Sternfeld was my photography instructor at Sarah Lawrence College and was an artistic mentor to me. I...
Hey Todd, thanks so much for your help! That really makes this easier.
According to Webster's Tenth Collegiate Dictionary, 'bellows' is a plural noun, but is singular or plural in construction. Before you "vote for 'are,'" gentlemen, think how that sounds.
Person...
Hi all: I've tried to search the net for this answer, but haven't come up with it. I'm l ooking to buy a 4x5 soon, to replace my Crown Graphic for studio use. My objecti ve is portraiture, so I'm...
Ellis, I'm surprised to hear you call Photoshop a "better" tool - and surprised to hear you ask who would hand etch a negative! You're usually less of a cheerleader for modernity:) The answer? I...
All the trouble of Large Format, just to compromise on image quality by printing digitally. Makes no sense to me. I don't care what anyone tries to sell you, there is NO digital process that has as...
MARK: I'm so sorry!!!!!! I should have read your post more carefully! Yikes, just shows how my temper gets flared up having to defend my sheet film all the time:(( I'm sorry my friend, for being an...
Mark: Calm down. Most photo mags these days show a decidedly 'anti-silver' bias, and you know that's true, but you're not jumping around about it because accusing a magazine of digital/film bias...
Hmmm. . neither does it take a SUPER DUPER DIGITAL 4000 DPI SCAN0- WIZARD system to make a nice print:)) My I ask why you chose to print this way David? If it were me, I would have opted for the...
One addendum: I should also mention that students given the opportunity to do digital work should be cautioned that digital capture, unless one has 40K to spend on a scanning back, another 10K on a...
William: I am 25 years old; hardly a dinosaur. If we are truly in the same club, then please read my post again and understand what I said. My point was that education, while it does have to adapt...
Use digital? The point of education is not to deliver to students what they've been trained to expect from advertising and the American ethos of "newer is better NO MATTER AT WHAT COST." This is...
Gee, maybe I'm just dumb, but wouldn't it be easier to just shoot film and ENLARGE it??? Oh, no, I'm sorry, I forgot, we all have to go through twisted contortions to make sure we inject something...
Sigh: Now, even on the large format board, I hear hackneyed ridiculous tripe like "you cannot tell the difference between a digital print and a conventional print." Correct that. YOU cannot tell...
IMPORTANT!!!!!! I forgot the most obvious thing!!!!! Flashing the paper increases HIGHLIGHT DENSITY in the print, not shadow!!!!! Flashing paper in the darkroom will have no effect on your shadows...
It makes no difference whether you preflash or post flash your film. The poster who suggested flashing your paper makes a point, BUT, the downside is you have to test the paper with a series of...
Jacque and Eric: Thank you both, gentleman, you really got the point of my post, and I appreciate it. You, Steve, were particularly helpful - while my "personal questions" are different than yours,...
Okay, I'm going to lose my usual cool demeanor and shout here for a second, so please pardon me: I'M NOT PLANNING ON TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANY CORPSES I'M NOT PLANNING ON TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANY...
Thank you all for your considered answers. Ellis, I must point two things out to you. Although I usually enjoy your responses, you obviously did not read my post thoroughly: "The final product is...
Dear Richard: I'm not sure there is a "purpose" to this other than what drives any conceptual artist to do the work he or she does. No, I do not claim that my work is intended to increase human...
Subject: Question for fine art pros. .a little off beat
Hello all: This is going to sound a bit strange, and I'll tell you up front that the only connection this has to medium/large format is...
It is incorrect to make a statement like "f22 is the upper limit for diffraction," etc. Why? Because, just like DOF, diffraction is dependent on the PHYSICAL SIZE of the aperture hole, not the f...
Ron- Why do you care if "the market is dominated by digital cameras?" Does that make your view camera unable to take a photograph? Like the above poster said, scan the negs if your client needs a...
I'm really surprised that, because my opinion represents a minority viewpoint, that you all feel the need to resort to personal attacks. Thanks, very much.
Steve: Read my post again, then recritique. If you'll notice, I talked about working conditions and learning situations more than I did about how "essentially" bad digital may or may not be. Is...
Gentlemen:
Thank you very much! That's exactly the kind of answer I was looking for, and it makes total sense:)
Question- In large format photography, why is electronic sharpening necessary? We all know that it's nothing but the augmentation of local contrast - hence, not "real" sharpness - and it doesn't...
Q- Do me a favor and can the "analog folks" crap. That's flame bait and you know it. Those of us who prefer to do handwork DO take a sense of satisfaction and pride that we don't need computer...
Pete: You forget that those "255 grains" that film "must have" to equate a pixel are usually considerably smaller than the pixel. That is why film is, often, (not in all cases), more continuous...
Yes, he's breaking new ground. The color "that escapes film" is so wondrous and new, it's like a color photograph has never been taken before. And, since we all know that sheet film enlargements...
David: Yes, you are largely correct. We are not talking, however, about having more detail than the paper can record, but about the quality of the detail present in the film. A negative with 1-2...
James: Note that, because you are not "getting it in the negative," the results, post exposure (this has nothing to do with digital vs. analogue) manipulation may not yield the highest quality....
Lloyd: The question is, rather, whether *you* are thinking straight. You will be able to shoot images with resolution limited by the lens only, huh? Well, you better patent that technology, my...
I agree, guys. I can't understand why A) Kodak seems to be deliberately trying to kill off film. B) Why "professional" photo reps make patently absurd and untrue claims about digital's abilities....