Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I know that Paul Strand did LF street photos in the late teens. The work was published in Stieglitz's "Camera Work" (available as a reprint). He used a very shiny false lens on the side of the camera and hid the real lens under his sleeve. I suspect he was using a Graphlex. Mike D - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Honemann" <danh@selectsa.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 9:33 AM Subject: [Leica] Street photography using LF (Was: DOF, Perspective etc.) > Which makes me wonder... has anyone ever tried street photography with a > large format camera? If one could manage to plant the beast in a shady > corner somewhere so as not to be _too_ conspicuous, couldn't wide, candid > shots be taken covering much of the scene and then later enlarged and > cropped to bring out only the interesting components? > > That might be a lot easier than trying to inconspicuously shoot up close > with an M6 and 35 or 50. Basically, with the large format, you'd get out of > the way during the shooting and do your composing in the darkroom rather > than in the finder. > > I seem to recall reading somewhere that Garry Winogrand was considering > using LF before he died. > > Dan > > > Depth of field is a function of viewing distance from the print, so it is > > determined by a lot more than just stuff you do in camera. The > > standard DOF > > tables are based on circles of confusion derived from viewing > > distances for prints at certain degrees of enlargement. > >