Will I get beaten up if ...

[Steve Smith]

... I post images on the forum shot using a Linhof Techno and a digital back?

No. Just make sure you add some film borders to them!


Steve.

[E. von Hoegh]

EvonH / Leigh...

Now I understand. I can crop 4x5in or larger sheet film as much as I like and it will always be LF but roll film, regardless of size is never LF... at least not with the size of RF that's readily available today.

ETA: There was a member here (Jim Galli?) who had a custom 5x14 camera made (by Chamonix?) who cut 5 inch roll film to shoot in said camera? Is that LF?

What's 5 times 14??? It ceased being rollfilm when he cut it! (bangs head on desk)

[E. von Hoegh]

Gad, this again.

I believe the owner of this forum has the position that it is the camera that matters -- not the film size. Roll film backs on a view camera are perfectly acceptable. 6x17 back on a view camera is fine -- 6x17 on a non-view camera is not fine. Digital back on a view camera should be fine. Press cameras have been grandfathered in and are fine. Still lots of gray areas, but that basically is it.

Vaughn

Yes, but that's for posting images, isn't it? I believe he sticks to the 20 square inch rule.

[Old-N-Feeble]

<snip>and it's obvious I'm sane.

There's never, ever, anything "obvious".

[Old-N-Feeble]

What's 5 times 14??? It ceased being rollfilm when he cut it! (bangs head on desk)

LOL!! Okay EvonH. Me thinks I need to quit playing with you.

[Vaughn]

No "twenty inch rule" that I know of. View cameras such as a Gavin 6x7 are acceptable, I believe. I have posed 6cm x 7cm images. All images are "posted" -- not quite sure what you mean by that.

[E. von Hoegh]

No "twenty inch rule" that I know of. View cameras such as a Gavin 6x7 are acceptable, I believe. I have posed 6cm x 7cm images. All images are "posted" -- not quite sure what you mean by that.

I mean the definition of "Large Format" on the homepage.

[Vaughn]

I mean the definition of "Large Format" on the homepage.

I could not find the definition on the homepage.

[Leigh]

... and it's obvious I'm sane.

Obvious? To whom???

- Leigh

[Brian Ellis]

LOL!! Yeah, okay. I'm just trying to wrap my head around this concept. So please... please... all us smaller folk want to know. Is 4x5in film, cropped smaller, still LF? If so, then is 4x5in film cropped to 6x7cm still LF? If it's not then when does 4x5in cease to be LF? Cropped 10 precent? Twenty percent? More?

What kind of cropping are you talking about? If you mean crops in making a print that has nothing to do with anything. If I expose 4x5 film in a 4x5 camera I've made a large format photograph. It's the size of the film that's relevant, not the size of the final print.

If you're talking about a film holder that crops the 4x5 film in camera, e.g. so that two images can be made on one sheet, that's irrelevant too it seems to me. You put 4x5 film in a 4x5 camera. You made a LF photograph. You put 6x7 film in a 4x5 camera and you've made a medium format photograph. I don't know what's "allowed" and what isn't and I doubt that everyone agrees but I don't see how a 6x7 negative can be considered "large format" regardless of what kind of camera was used to make it.