Why is this important?
YES! I too wish that these features were available here. I especially appreciate the ability to ignore individual threads. Sometimes even threads start out interesting wander off into the weeds and become tedious....then there are the threads that are just plain dumb from the get go...but that never seem to die (the "what film did you shoot today" thread for example).
Vinny made this suggestion in post number 6, and only one member (DennisD) has referenced it in all 125 posts that have constituted this discussion thus far.
So I trotted on over to the FAQ page and right there, at the top of that page is the following:
And as I observed, Dennis has read the guidelines and pointed out quite well how they apply here.The purpose of the forum is to provide a place for discussion of topics of particular interest to large format photographers. We especially encourage questions which will help build a repository of knowledge about the tools and techniques of large format photography, as opposed to "shopping" questions. For the purposes of this forum, we define "large format" as being essentially 4x5, or larger, sheet film. We do, however, allow what would otherwise be considered "medium format" sizes, IF exposed in a view camera (e.g. with a roll-film adapter), technical, or old-style press camera (e.g. the various Graphic cameras).
And just as I did, he observed that the guidelines are clear.
Digital image capture using LF equipment is not considered "Large Format" at this discussion group. Although I would like to see it included, it is not by the rules, and I am OK with that. I don't make the rules here, I am only expected to know and abide by them.
There has been considerable divergence of discussion from the initial question, and in part of that discussion about the digital scanning backs available for LF cameras was mentioned and briefly discussed. Actually the rules seem to have not kept pace with the growth of the forum, as there is an area of discussion in the LF section here: http://www.largeformatphotography.in...gital-Hardware
Anyway, for me at least, the rules are quite clear. If anything they might need some tweaking to more closely reflect the growth of the forum since they were put in place.
Or the discussion areas in the LF section that don't actually fit the rules may need to be placed in a different (possibly new) section.
Whiskey Is Sunlight Held Together By Water
To put that in todays perpective. Here's interesting link about current commercial imaging:
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/11/27/cgi...alogue-images/
There's no camera, no lens, no sensor, no studio lights, no monkey who presses shutter to take selfies.
And "it" produces images of as many megapixels as one wants - "larger" than any physical camera can produce
It's pretty simple: Anything that would have been photographed on a solid plate (glass, tin sheet, etc) in the 19th century is Large Format.
Wilhelm (Sarasota)
I knew this, I got most of my Profoto lighting from a product photographer that was retiring as all his work was lost to renderings, he did stuff like BMW car adds, all of those are renderings now, not actual cars.
Such is the world, mannequin people and digital cars....
Interesting how people interpret a set of facts in different ways. I looked at the same set of facts as others and came to the conclusion that the rules are not clear.
On the one hand, you have a FAQ which does not mention digital of any kind, which could lead one to believe that digital is not within the rules . . .
But on the other hand there are forum groups that treat both digital hardware, and digital processing . . .
I see this an inconsistency that needs clarification. It is impossible for a community to abide by the rules if the rules themselves are not mostly clear to all.
Sandy
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