Large Format Poll

[Scott Davis]

I'd say any kind of sheet film - that would include 2x3 cut sheet and above. 6x12 rollfilm can be done in a back to fit a 4x5 or 5x7 camera, but it can also be done in a dedicated medium-format-only handheld camera. So it's a gray area.

[tim atherton]

I'd say any kind of sheet film - that would include 2x3 cut sheet and above. 6x12 rollfilm can be done in a back to fit a 4x5 or 5x7 camera, but it can also be done in a dedicated medium-format-only handheld camera. So it's a gray area.

so a 10" (?) Cirkut camera wouldn't be LF - even if the camera has shifts, big bellows, is made out of wood - looks like a view camera etc, but doesn't use sheets?

(hmm - isn't a roll just one really long sheet....?)

[Robert Hughes]

And what if the digital files are stored on 5 1/4" CD's? Or 8" floppies?

[David Crossley]

Just my 0.02, but any large format "pidgeon holing" has to include 6x12 and 6x17 rollfilm.



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[Greg Lockrey]

Just my 0.02, but any large format "pidgeon holing" has to include 6x12 and 6x17 rollfilm.

Ahhh...6x12 ??? (Doesn't make the 100cm2 limit) but the 6x17 does. Unless roll film is excluded and then are aerial servailance cameras with 4.5 inch roll film included or excluded?

[Scott Davis]

2 1/4" rollfilm is exempted because it is nominally "medium format" film.

[Doug Keyes]

Anything that has an image capture area 4x5 or larger. 6x12, 6x17, are panoramic medium format.
So for example, you can use a large format view camera and attach a medium format capture device like a digital back. What you get is a medium format image with that setup.
- Doug

[Greg Lockrey]

I thought that the Germans (Europeans) have determined that 100cm2 makes for a large format image....it was mentioned on a earlier post by someone more knowledgable than me. 6x12 wouldn't make it, but a 6x17 would by that limitation. Why does the fact that film is on a roll have anything to do with it?

[David Crossley]

<Ahhh...6x12 ??? (Doesn't make the 100cm2 limit) but the 6x17 does.> So if 6x12 does'nt make the cut, where does that leave the "split darkslide?



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[David Crossley]

<Why does the fact that film is on a roll have anything to do with it?>

It should'nt.



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