Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 1/28/04 11:52 AM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > On 1/27/04 11:58 AM, "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com> wrote: > >> Feli: >> >> I tried moving up from medium format a couple of years ago... 6x7cm to >> 4x5" isn't much of a change. >> >> You might want to try 11x14, or at least 8x10. You won't need an >> enlarger as you'll be able to make contact prints and an 11x14 or 8x10 >> isn't that much more trouble to work with than a 4x5. >> >> Here's one from last Septemebr which I've only recently got around to >> scanning, it's one of BD's favorite subjects: >> >> http://www.hemenway.com/NubbleIslandLighthouse.jpg >> >> If you're on dial-up you may want this one instead: >> http://www.hemenway.com/NubbleIslandLighthouse-small.jpg >> >> Ekatachrome 100, Schneider Symmar-s 360mm f6.8 >> >> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Feli di Giorgio wrote: >>> Right now I have a Saunder/LPL 6700 with a color head, which i use to >>> print black/white.Very nice unit, but lately I've been having this itch >>> to shoot with my 4x5. Unfortunately my enlarger will only go up to 6x7, >>> so I have been looking at the Saunders 4500 series with a variable >>> contrast head. New they are cheaper than the average Leica lens, but >>> they aren't exactly giving them away either and I figured with many pros >>> going digital there should be some high-end units floating around out >>> there. >>> >>> feli >>> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > I find no small difference in quality between sheet film (4x5) and brownie > film. And Its my impression this is the consensus. (as in everybody knows > this). An argument being Ansel used Hasselblad in the second half of his > life. An argument against that being he didnšt shoot much in the second half > of his life. An argument against that being half dome and who cares! > > When I first got the chance to work in medium format with a Rolleiflex 2.8 F > I found it to be really a real step up from 35. > > But The first time I made a print (it was an 11x14) from a 4x5 neg I thought > I was having an out of body experience in the darkroom. Then I thought > someone left the room lights on. Then I though someone put LSD in my Dektol. > It certainly looked 3d in the orange. Better of course when the white lights > came on. I've scanned that shot recently I still show it. I got soaked > thought the skin shooting it and got some interesting vignetteing on the > top. Which was the bottom of my groundglass. > I often wonder what would have happened if Ansel stayed with sheet film. > When asked which cameras he shot he always said the heaviest one he could > carry. But by then other's were carrying his cameras (he had arthritis) and > would have gladly shouldered an 11x14 for him. Not sure if you could walk a > mile with an 11x14 unless you were Rambo or Arnold. I think Ansel was > immersed mainly in printing his negs from his first half of his life in the > second half. This I've gleaned recently from a DVD I rented about him. > > > > > Mark Rabiner > Photography > Portland, Oregon > http://rabinergroup.com/Catagorypages/PersonalWork.html > > I did have that shot uploaded after all I didnšt see it the first time. http://rabinergroup.com/ImagePages/LewisandClarkpuddlepage.html Mark Rabiner Photography Portland, Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/Catagorypages/PersonalWork.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html