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Subject: [Leica] OT: Contax 645 one more time
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:28:17 +1000
References: <36172e5a0908171900l65facef7i23bc96d668333d8@mail.gmail.com> <C6AF8999.5308D%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Yep I'm sure you were Mark. I was saying that, given those mentioned
factors, you can't write off or judge other formats or options as
impractical or say that one is superior to another.
Some years back people decried that new miniature format invented by some
guy named Herr Barnack. The market disagreed.

Do you consider then that the squares were ideal for cropping from for your
output?
Worked best because you didn't need to turn the camera on its side for
portrait format?
You could afford to use part of each frame to allow for composition error
and output proportions?
645 seems so rational and efficient to me, but then I've only shot casually
with a Mamiya 645.
I am getting the new Bessa III to try for a couple of weeks. That should be
fun.

2009/8/18 Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>

> > Mark I certainly wasn't questioning your experience there, as I said.
> > What I was saying was that, given all of those varied conditions and
> uses,
> > you really cannot make valid judgements about this format or that
> > format, lens brand, sensor size or type. Certainly you can not make any
> > reliable judgement about resolution or IQ. I bet there are even some
> wedding
> > shooters out there right now using four thirds crop circles  ;-)
>
>
>
> I had lots of friends using all kinds of systems and we were all pulling
> our
> 16x20 prints out of the same Kreonite so our perspective on just what
> system
> could do what was very interestingly acute.
>
> Wedding photography like stock photography is dominated by the 24x36
> digital
> format.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>
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Cheers
Geoff
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Replies: Reply from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] OT: Contax 645 one more time)
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