Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I recall Avedon shot the Berlin wall falling with a Rolleiflex with big pieces of torn 2 inch masking tape on the back on it saying what the ASA or camera number it was. Then if it was as if he put them away for good in lieu of shooting 8x10 for the remaining decade and a half of his life with several assistants all helping making it an automatic kind of a thing. What the heck? Why fool around. There's a time when you want to make everything count. I may pick one up for a few hundred bucks. A calumet C1. Somehow land a lens. Run them in trays one by one. Then scan them with a 99 dollar scanner and make for results outdoing a $40,000 medium format digital back or certainly any digital camera. Make digital contact prints! :) It's not as if you need an 8x10 enlarger any more. It's not as if you ever did. As an 8x10 contact print is a thing to itself. Which anyone who saw the Edward Weston show this year knows. And 8x10 Kodachrome transparencies Weston did. Which were actually to me pretty boring but at least at last I got to see some 8x10 Kodachrome. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/