Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I understood and practiced pre-visualization in its purest form when using an 8x10 camera (even more so with a 12x20) something about those huge ground glasses and setting them up along with a spot meter and color temperature meter lent itself very well to the pre-visualization concept 4x5 photography lent itself very well to the polaroid proof mode the Hasselblad a bit less so - although the polaroid still worked on commercial, architectural and interior work a 35 SLR yet a bit less so - more frames - more experimentation a 35 RF means working fast and thinking less digital does bring back a certain "polaroid" type of approach yet, not the same, unless tethered, and really studying and tweaking along the way YMMV Fond regards, George george@imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Dec 2, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Douglas Sharp wrote: > Visualisation IS still important - we now just have a lot more > leeway for making mistakes - and, fortunately, the opportunity to > correct them with another shot within seconds of having viewed them > on the back of the camera. > > What we now have is more or less an equivalent of a Polaroid back > on a film camera.