Dick Clark
18-Jan-2000, 20:38
Here are a few comments on the Thread Danny started on why his LF chromes are so ft compared to the ones on smaller formats.
Lots of good responses, especially the ones that discussed practice rather than theory. The ideal situation where your subject exist on one plane, as in a lens test target, rarely occurs for me in my feeble attempts at landscape photograph y. I shot med. Format for several years and can tell you that you rarely ever s hoot at f5.6, or even f8. Usually you're trying to max out DoF and using F22+ ( you can't take a near-far shot w/o this if you have no movements. So I think th e "ideal" resolution of med. format lenses is quickly compromised in practice (a t least for my work). Of course the same is true for LF, But you have a bigger piece of film to help compensate AND the movements can make ALL the difference.
Todd
Lots of good responses, especially the ones that discussed practice rather than theory. The ideal situation where your subject exist on one plane, as in a lens test target, rarely occurs for me in my feeble attempts at landscape photograph y. I shot med. Format for several years and can tell you that you rarely ever s hoot at f5.6, or even f8. Usually you're trying to max out DoF and using F22+ ( you can't take a near-far shot w/o this if you have no movements. So I think th e "ideal" resolution of med. format lenses is quickly compromised in practice (a t least for my work). Of course the same is true for LF, But you have a bigger piece of film to help compensate AND the movements can make ALL the difference.
Todd