Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/07

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Subject: [Leica] Ansel Adams Wilderness
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:26:34 -0400

It does seem audacious or even impudent for a respected worker to be out in
Ansel Adams territory with a 35mm camera. I'm seeing this with this post of
an not new thread in kind of in a new light.  Ansel A. would climb these
mountains before modern mountain climbing methods and been invented yet with
an 8x10 camera on his back and a half dozen 8x10 glass plates in his early
20's. And with his wife, Virginia Best Adams right behind him all the way up
and all the way down the mountain. Amazing they survived even without the
gear. And the results they got were clearly worth with risk and adventure.
The images one gets contact printing or enlarging 8x10 negs or
transparencies is very hard to beat and has a way of standing alone in a
room filled with prints of smaller formats.

But what Ansel didn't have and we have now is the ability to merge
individual exposures together and with each one we've in effect increased
our format size by that much.
I see in the B&H catalog cameras which seem to be designed with stitching in
mind. Wide angle digital cameras.

So we have a decisive new paradigm shift now in how we might obtain images
with an astounding amount of breath taking information .
The word "coverage" can be used in a whole new way in photography.
Very large format results possible with very small formats.
We could go out with even smaller cropped digital sensors and work
spontaneously and then with carful stitching made large format results. And
I think here on the lug we've seen some from pocket point and shots with
sensors the size of your baby fingernail.

I saw it in some ways it all starting with Hasselblad marketing its 35mm pan
camera the Xpan as a "medium format camera" which shoots 35mm film.
Though really it had existed before with the bigger pieces of the brownie
film pie 6x12 and 6x17 formats. Roll film. But with sheet film acreage.

These merges by Paul and some other Lug members are truly head revolving a
full 361 degrees.
..."inspiring" is an understatement!!!
Click-click-click-click-click!

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Lottermoser George <imagist3 at mac.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:49:15 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams Wilderness
> 
> 
> On Aug 17, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Paul Roark wrote:
> 
>> In the first week of August I backpacked into the Ansel Adams
>> Wilderness with Roy Harrington.  I am putting the images I work on at
>> http://www.paulroark.com/Ansel-Adams-Wilderness.html
>> 
>> To reduce the weight as much as possible, the M9 and 35mm f/2.8 Zeiss
>> Biogon were the extent of the camera equipment.  No tripod -- which
>> makes the shot of flowing water all the more interesting to think
>> about.
>> 
>> All images were combinations of multiple frames.  Sun over Lake Ediza
>> was 15 frames -- two rows of 7 plus one for the sun.
> 
> so very fine
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> 
> 
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