Someone please tell me. Some people are saying using a digital slr is like large format just because they use large capture and/or using tilt shift lenses. I personally do not think that that is large format photography.
Someone please tell me. Some people are saying using a digital slr is like large format just because they use large capture and/or using tilt shift lenses. I personally do not think that that is large format photography.
I totally agree. Large format has always been "FILM" 5x4 and above.
I was very dissappointed to see a recent post with a stitched image. I make no comment on the content but it is not large format. I don't beleive the author was seriously claiming it as large format, well I hope he wasn't.
Andrew,
I agree with you.
When I was young, in the 1930's and 40's, 35mm was called miniature. 120 through 5x7 was called medium format. Large format was 8x10 and bigger with the banquet cameras in a special category.
Looks like I'm not as old as you Jim
Hi Andrew,
As far as I am concerned and as far as I know, large format in todays terms refers to cameras of 4 X 5 or 9 cm X 12 cm or larger. When working with shift lenses as with the the Canon Tilt and Shift lens (and stitching), or shift lenses with medium format cameras they are simulating the movements offered by large format cameras. The same would apply to those medium format cameras with rise, fall, shift, swing, and tilt capabilities such as the Fuj 6 X 8 or the Linhof 6 X 9 Technikas and Technikardans.
Rich
Last edited by naturephoto1; 20-Mar-2007 at 21:16.
Those people are saying it is *like* large format photography.
What exactly is disappointing in someone posting a stitched image ?
It is dissappointing if it is pretending to be large format. Still every conterfeit is.
Steve
Hi Tuan,
I don't see anything wrong with stitched images or posting a stitched image, but for me, a stitched image is fundamentally and substantially different than an image derived from a single capture. Certainly, stitching images is a worthwhile and challenging pursuit. Some might view the distinction from an ethics perspective - I'm thinking of it as a style or esthetic issue. As an analogy you'll easily grasp (even from your European perspective ): free climbing is to aid climbing as single capture images are to composites. I think of free climbing as a purer pursuit; aid has it's own appeal, but I've always thought of aiding as a matter of necessity for a given route. Similarly, I think of single image capture as an esthetically purer pursuit - where the photographer is in the moment with the light, to make art.
Andrew,
I think of large format photography as 4X5 or larger. The Ebony 6X9 system, the Fuji 680 III system and the Horseman backs are on the other side of the line. Im not sure where I think 6X17 belongs.
Last edited by Eric James; 20-Mar-2007 at 21:33. Reason: added snotty euro-climber remark:)
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