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  1. My wife wants digital need 4x5 scanner options

    James: Just what in the world is your wife dazzled by? I know for a fact that whatever camera her sister is using does NOT produce 35mm quality prints, unless it takes 12 megapixel images. What...
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    Digital Now as good as LF!

    Dear Eric, Thank you (honestly) for correcting me. . it's Gorman, then isn't it? It's best to know thine enemy by his right name. . you gave me a chuckle:)
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    Digital Now as good as LF!

    MMm. I see one of our posters has been reading the Foveon ad copy, endorsed by photographer Greg Corman on a joke of an interview on NPR? Let's see, if you can get 6 megapixels from 35mm - too...
  4. Which 4x5 Camera For Old Hollywood Glamour Shot

    With all due respect, please allow me to correct some misperceptions here. I am friends with Mark Viera, a latter-day associate of George Hurrell's who recently published a book titled "Hurrell's...
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    Who is shooting 8x10 color nowadays?

    Neil:

    Thanks for mentioning Joel! His name, actually, is Sternfeld, not Steinfeld, but I'm glad someone mentioned him nonetheless. He's a good friend of mine, and was my mentor in college. He...
  6. Joel Sternfeld--Street photography with 8x10"

    John: YES, YOU SHOULD! Get that "old" 4x5 out. The basic principles of photography have never changed - nothing "new," fancy, or "sophisticated" will make a damned bit of difference when the light ...
  7. Joel Sternfeld--Street photography with 8x10"

    If you had ever seen one of his prints in person, Dave, you would have had no doubts:) Joel Sternfeld was my photography instructor at Sarah Lawrence College and was an artistic mentor to me. I...
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    Bellows: How close can you go?

    Hey Todd, thanks so much for your help! That really makes this easier.
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    My Bellows Is Fine

    According to Webster's Tenth Collegiate Dictionary, 'bellows' is a plural noun, but is singular or plural in construction. Before you "vote for 'are,'" gentlemen, think how that sounds.

    Person...
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    Bellows: How close can you go?

    Hi all: I've tried to search the net for this answer, but haven't come up with it. I'm l ooking to buy a 4x5 soon, to replace my Crown Graphic for studio use. My objecti ve is portraiture, so I'm...
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    Golden Age of Hollywood Photography

    Ellis, I'm surprised to hear you call Photoshop a "better" tool - and surprised to hear you ask who would hand etch a negative! You're usually less of a cheerleader for modernity:) The answer? I...
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    landscape film speed

    All the trouble of Large Format, just to compromise on image quality by printing digitally. Makes no sense to me. I don't care what anyone tries to sell you, there is NO digital process that has as...
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    New"PhotoVision" Magazine

    MARK: I'm so sorry!!!!!! I should have read your post more carefully! Yikes, just shows how my temper gets flared up having to defend my sheet film all the time:(( I'm sorry my friend, for being an...
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    New"PhotoVision" Magazine

    Mark: Calm down. Most photo mags these days show a decidedly 'anti-silver' bias, and you know that's true, but you're not jumping around about it because accusing a magazine of digital/film bias...
  15. Back to the future-what about glass plates?

    Hmmm. . neither does it take a SUPER DUPER DIGITAL 4000 DPI SCAN0- WIZARD system to make a nice print:)) My I ask why you chose to print this way David? If it were me, I would have opted for the...
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    Suggestions for large format demo

    One addendum: I should also mention that students given the opportunity to do digital work should be cautioned that digital capture, unless one has 40K to spend on a scanning back, another 10K on a...
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    Suggestions for large format demo

    William: I am 25 years old; hardly a dinosaur. If we are truly in the same club, then please read my post again and understand what I said. My point was that education, while it does have to adapt...
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    Suggestions for large format demo

    Use digital? The point of education is not to deliver to students what they've been trained to expect from advertising and the American ethos of "newer is better NO MATTER AT WHAT COST." This is...
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    Using color print paper as film?

    Gee, maybe I'm just dumb, but wouldn't it be easier to just shoot film and ENLARGE it??? Oh, no, I'm sorry, I forgot, we all have to go through twisted contortions to make sure we inject something...
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    Digital black & white

    Sigh: Now, even on the large format board, I hear hackneyed ridiculous tripe like "you cannot tell the difference between a digital print and a conventional print." Correct that. YOU cannot tell...
  21. Pre-exposing film for decreased contrast ?

    IMPORTANT!!!!!! I forgot the most obvious thing!!!!! Flashing the paper increases HIGHLIGHT DENSITY in the print, not shadow!!!!! Flashing paper in the darkroom will have no effect on your shadows...
  22. Pre-exposing film for decreased contrast ?

    It makes no difference whether you preflash or post flash your film. The poster who suggested flashing your paper makes a point, BUT, the downside is you have to test the paper with a series of...
  23. Question for fine art pros. . .a little off beat

    Jacque and Eric: Thank you both, gentleman, you really got the point of my post, and I appreciate it. You, Steve, were particularly helpful - while my "personal questions" are different than yours,...
  24. Question for fine art pros. . .a little off beat

    Okay, I'm going to lose my usual cool demeanor and shout here for a second, so please pardon me: I'M NOT PLANNING ON TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANY CORPSES I'M NOT PLANNING ON TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANY...
  25. Question for fine art pros. . .a little off beat

    Thank you all for your considered answers. Ellis, I must point two things out to you. Although I usually enjoy your responses, you obviously did not read my post thoroughly: "The final product is...
  26. Question for fine art pros. . .a little off beat

    Dear Richard: I'm not sure there is a "purpose" to this other than what drives any conceptual artist to do the work he or she does. No, I do not claim that my work is intended to increase human...
  27. Question for fine art pros. . .a little off beat

    Subject: Question for fine art pros. .a little off beat

    Hello all: This is going to sound a bit strange, and I'll tell you up front that the only connection this has to medium/large format is...
  28. the relationship between DOF and diffraction

    It is incorrect to make a statement like "f22 is the upper limit for diffraction," etc. Why? Because, just like DOF, diffraction is dependent on the PHYSICAL SIZE of the aperture hole, not the f...
  29. Small Product Photography ..digital or film?

    Ron- Why do you care if "the market is dominated by digital cameras?" Does that make your view camera unable to take a photograph? Like the above poster said, scan the negs if your client needs a...
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    Gallery Digital Prints?

    I'm really surprised that, because my opinion represents a minority viewpoint, that you all feel the need to resort to personal attacks. Thanks, very much.
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    Gallery Digital Prints?

    Steve: Read my post again, then recritique. If you'll notice, I talked about working conditions and learning situations more than I did about how "essentially" bad digital may or may not be. Is...
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    "smart" sharpening software

    Gentlemen:

    Thank you very much! That's exactly the kind of answer I was looking for, and it makes total sense:)
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    "smart" sharpening software

    Question- In large format photography, why is electronic sharpening necessary? We all know that it's nothing but the augmentation of local contrast - hence, not "real" sharpness - and it doesn't...
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    Gallery Digital Prints?

    Q- Do me a favor and can the "analog folks" crap. That's flame bait and you know it. Those of us who prefer to do handwork DO take a sense of satisfaction and pride that we don't need computer...
  35. Does larger digital file = greater amount of useful data???

    Pete: You forget that those "255 grains" that film "must have" to equate a pixel are usually considerably smaller than the pixel. That is why film is, often, (not in all cases), more continuous...
  36. Stephen Johnson and digital photography breaking new ground ?

    Yes, he's breaking new ground. The color "that escapes film" is so wondrous and new, it's like a color photograph has never been taken before. And, since we all know that sheet film enlargements...
  37. Digital technique to correct Light fall-off

    David: Yes, you are largely correct. We are not talking, however, about having more detail than the paper can record, but about the quality of the detail present in the film. A negative with 1-2...
  38. Digital technique to correct Light fall-off

    James: Note that, because you are not "getting it in the negative," the results, post exposure (this has nothing to do with digital vs. analogue) manipulation may not yield the highest quality....
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    Will Digital Make LF obsolete?

    Lloyd: The question is, rather, whether *you* are thinking straight. You will be able to shoot images with resolution limited by the lens only, huh? Well, you better patent that technology, my...
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    A sign of the times...

    I agree, guys. I can't understand why A) Kodak seems to be deliberately trying to kill off film. B) Why "professional" photo reps make patently absurd and untrue claims about digital's abilities....
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