Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If memory serves me right the first 35mm shot put up on that rather famous billboard was one of Ernst Haas' safari shots in the mid 1950s. I am not 100 % sure whether it was the first 35mm shot or the first 35mm colour shot. Cheers Jayanand Sent from my iPad On 30-Apr-2013, at 10:44 AM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > I remember an article that talked about the Billboard in Grand Central > Station in NYC. The billboard was inside, in the train station. 75 feet > wide, it was pretty spectacular. They picked images to show there from > amateurs and pros alike. Every week/month, there was a new image there. > > The particular one I remember was one of bunch of birds taking off from a > lake (?). Everyone up and fly away.... Caught by an amateur and his > Nikon/Canon/Contax/Leica/Pentax/Minolta/Miranda camera. A 35mm Negative > blown up to an enormous amount. > > The article went on to state that the negative was sharp enough to pull > off the stunt... remember, the wall was 75 feet wide, and the closest you > could get to it was like 30-40 feet ( straight up). That's a 600:1 linear > magnification... or .... roughly a half million to one area magnification. > > Don't need to have remarkable file sizes to pull it off..... just a good > sharp negative, some great printers, and enough distance from the > viewer..... > > > Frank Filippone > Red735i at verizon.net > > Yes, the PhaseOne files are huge. Worthy of billboard sized prints... > Thanks again, > Bob > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information