Images captured by a traditional view camera 4x5 inches in size and larger?
Any film or digital file 4x5 inches or larger captured & created by any means?
I think of rollfilm as medium format, even if it's 6x24, but that doesn't mean it can't be discussed on the LF forum. We've had discussions of panoramic formats and rollfilm backs here for a long time. But generally cameras like 645, 6x6, and 6x7 SLRs and TLRs have been off topic unless they are cameras with movements, and even then, they've been at the margins.
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David Crossley/Crossley Photography....
The first option (demanding a "traditional view camera") leaves out any image made by press cameras, Graflex-type SLR's, pinhole cameras, etc.
The second option (demanding a "film or digital file" capture) leaves out wet-plates, dry-plates, tin-types, daguerreotypes, paper negatives, Polaroids up to 20x24...
I'm not comfortable with either...
As I stated farther up the thread:Originally Posted by Mark Sawyer
Well I wrote these polls last night right before going to bed. On this and the other poll I wrote I had more wording to go with each possible vote but was limited by 80 characters to a line. So I quickly redid it but in retrospect should have put more thought into it when I wasn't so tired. My intention was not to simply stir the pot or create divisions but to just get a better feel for the opinions of forum members. I thought a poll would give more numbers as most people just read posts and don't actually write responses. If anyone cares to they can make a new poll, better worded and structured and we can just kill these.
Not meant so much as criticism as just looking at how many nooks and crannies the question reaches into. It would be a hard issue to write the "perfect" poll question for...
And that's the real answer in a nutshell - let's just be relaxed about it, nobody's ever died of having had to ignore an occassional discussion thread that might have been out of place or simply was uninteresting. It is interesting to someone, obviously, and that someone might possibly know the solution to your problem a week or two later, if they felt comfortable enough to keep discussing whatever strikes their fancy. Be it (g)astronomy, motorcycles, rock-crawling, wine, cheese or what not.
This is just off the top of my head, we've actually had all these discussions and nobody objected nor did the world stop turning. We've also had heated political discussions and although many did object, the collective wisdom was to just let it be here and there in the name of building community.
Besides, there is no good way, really, of filtering "inappropriate" context out and still keeping the board interesting. There're just too many "special cases"...
The definition of Large Format is much like the definition of Pornography: I know it when I see it.
Wilhelm (Sarasota)
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