Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Forrest" <photo.forrest at earthlink.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2013 8:22 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon doesn't see it quite like Mark > What Frank said. > > Phil Forrest > > > > On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 09:00:23 +0000 > Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > >> Yes Mark but you are -just- like Barnacks contemporary critics, never >> accepting that a smaller format could ever produce acceptable results. >> >> Well Leica proved them wrong, not as good as MF, 5x4 and 10x8 >> obviously, but entirely useable for reasonably sized prints and much >> more convenient for use hand held, traveling, climbing etc.. Today >> few people argue that MF digital sensors don't produce better results >> (at least in bright light), but superb and totally acceptable results >> in prints much bigger than Barnack would ever have believed possible >> are being made in their billions by people using the smaller sensors >> nowadays. Just like 35mm film displaced 120. Get used to it, you are >> a dinosaur - just like all Barnack's critics back in the 1920s. FD >> >> On 3 Feb, 2013, at 08:05, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> >> > Well Gary I think that there was a guy named Barnack who thought a >> > lot of work could be done with a quality compact camera with a >> > 24x36mm format. After much thought he didn't go with 24x18 as a few >> > others in the time were going. Which was called "single frame" he >> > went with "double frame" taking up twice the film in length an at >> > the time a bit of an unusual move. His hunch was proved right. It >> > turned out that most of what you'd ever want to do could be done in >> > that format for a hundred years later. There's really nothing >> > arbitrary about it and its not a minor subject. As is its WAY more >> > of an important issue that lenses. If the thread bores you please >> > continue playing with your cameras which could come out of a box of >> > crackerjacks and ignore the posts about eagerly waited for larger >> > format compacts. Me I'll be not be totally happy until the first >> > medium format compact comes out. An in effect: digital Fuji folder >> > >> > >> > On 2/3/13 1:40 AM, "Gary Benson" <bensonga at gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> All these arguments over format size get very tiresome, very >> >> quickly. Some people will think if any subject is worth shooting >> >> at all, only 8x10 film will do. Others are quite happy to shoot >> >> with something else. >> >> >> >> I really thing good photos can be made with any camera.....they >> >> will just be "good" in different ways >> >> >> >> I say.....pick the camera or format that works best for you and >> >> your shooting requirements and leave the rest of us to do the same. >> >> >> >> Gary >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Leica Users Group. >> >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >> >> information >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Mark William Rabiner >> > Photography >> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > -- > http://philipforrestphoto.wordpress.com/ > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/philforrest > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information