LF Clarification

[Tin Can]

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[Tim Meisburger]

I have a negative here I will print tomorrow. A group shot of the 100 delegates of the Multinational Observer Group in Fiji. When I print I will crop about three/quarters of the negative and use strips from 11x14 paper; either two or three per sheet, longways. I've already scanned the negative, and I can crop to an individual head and get quality that looks like 35mm. Its an amazing characteristic of LF!

[Jac@stafford.net]

How about total square inches? No good?

[rdenney]

Ken and I will arm-wrestle over it. We will agree that we don't want to make or have to enforce a rule about it.

But let's just say there's not much point in hassling with large format if we are going to crop it down to 35mm. But we all crop images. If you think you've cropped it down to the point where you feel guilty calling it large format, then put it in Everything Else.

Hint: saying "I cropped this down to 1x1.5" but I can post it here. I can, I tell you!" Will be considered a sign of a guilty conscience.

Rick "seriously, use your own judgment" Denney

[rdenney]

How about total square inches? No good?

No--that has been hashed out in the past, with no good results.

4x5 (nominal, which includes 9x12), 4" rolls, or bigger.

Rick "sticking with this line" Denney

[jcoldslabs]

My most recent post in the "Abstracts" thread was a roughly 3" x 3" crop from an 8x10 transparency. Should THAT be posted in a non-LF thread? I"m not bothered by the need to stick to the rules, I just want to make sure I know what the rules are.

Jonathan

EDIT: If I were to use Rick's "let thy conscience be thy guide" yardstick, I say a severe crop of 8x10 that nominally approximates 4x5 is acceptable. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

[Tin Can]

Until we beat a confession out of you, how would we ever know.

[Sal Santamaura]

...I say a severe crop of 8x10 that nominally approximates 4x5 is acceptable. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Until we beat a confession out of you, how would we ever know.

Indeed, how would we know about almost any images made on smaller format film after they've been scanned, re-sized by the forum software and displayed as (at best) 72dpi screen images.

[Corran]

Well my conscience can't be a guide, because it says that my 6x17 images taken with a view camera with LF lenses I use with sheet film that cover 5x7 inches, with 15 square inches of film exposed, is well within the confines of LF.

I'll call it split 5x7.

[Tin Can]

I gotta agree as I use sliders with LF film in studio portraits often.

Just like the olden days and my equipment is old too.

Well my conscience can't be a guide, because it says that my 6x17 images taken with a view camera with LF lenses I use with sheet film that cover 5x7 inches, with 15 square inches of film exposed, is well within the confines of LF.

I'll call it split 5x7.