Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/27

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Subject: Re: Getting serious
From: Ian Stanley <ian@mos.com.np>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:07:44 +0500

Hello Roger,

	I'll take the risk along with you.  All things being equal like you say,
you just can't beat a large negative or transparency!!  I use my 4x5 most
of the time resorting to my Leicas when it is impractical to use the larger
camera.  I always have one of my M's with me so that I don't miss an image
but if I see something that I really like I will come back with the 4x5.
Once seeing a 4x5 transparency on the light table or printing a 35mm
negative after working with a 4x5 one takes all of the arguments out of it
for me.  This is not a Leica put down - I just like lager negatives better.

Ian Stanley

Kathmandu, Nepal

At 07:29 PM 97-10-27 -0700, you wrote:
>Geez, I hate like hell to do this cause it'll likely start a format 
>flame war, but I just can't resist stating the obvious.
>
>If the shoot doesn't favor one format vs. another, such as street 
>action, expansive scenics where set up time is assumed and the wait for 
>the right light is inevitable, etc. the simple fact is that bigger *is* 
>better! 
>
>Take the photographer, as a variable, out of the equation. Put the same 
>photographer behind the formats for the shoot, assume equal skill of 
>that photographer with the various formats, the best optics available 
>for the various formats, equal films etc., and, the results will favor 
>the larger formats every time!
>
>Oh my God, I invoked an absolute. Shields up...Go for it!
>--
>Roger Beamon  
>       Naturalist & Photographer
>       Leica Historical Society Of America
>       mailto:beamon@primenet.com
>          
>          Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only
>   truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere,
>   like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of
>   our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of
>   painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of
>   a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
>                                                             
>           -- Bertrand Russell
>
>
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