Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am not sure what we are trying tosay using a 35MM LEica is superior to a 4x5 or 8x10 image. WE are trying to compare apples and oranges. As for sharpness I think that it is hard to beat a LF chrome that has applied the appropriate movements. For me there is nothing like a 8x10 chrome. It will knock the socks off anything. We all believe that there is not anything better than a LEica 35MM image. If that was absolutely true than there would not be a need for the MF industry or the LF industry. Leica over the years would have totally destroyed there markets. IT has been said that the 150MM F4 Schneider Tele Zenar for the Rollei 600x cameras is is as sharp of the portrait lens that there ever was. I believe that LEica is as good as it gets but there are other options that can not be discounted. I am new to Leica. I have not owned a 35MM camera for 5 years. I don't have as much energy carrying a 8x10 or a 4x5, or a MF Rollei in the field. So I felt I would find and buy the best 35MM tha there is. Sold my Rollei 6003 and a few of the LF lenses to finace the LEica kit. I am keeping the 4x5 and shooting the LF and the new Leica. Hope to meet many of you at the show in New YOrk. I am coming in for the day from Detroit. Jerry Rosenfeld I would like to thank everyone for all of the information and the silly questions that I have asked frm what type of bag to why does the battery burn so fast Mark Rabiner wrote: > > Jonathan Borden wrote: > > > > Against 'conventional wisdom' about the benefits of large format w.r.t image > > sharpness is the article > > http://www.photodo.com/templates/display.lasso?show=489 > > which, to sumarize, states that with tmax 100 film, 35mm,MF, and LF have > > similar sharpness. I believe the issue is that top 35mm lenses are sharper > > than equivalent large format lenses. On the other hand if Tri-X is used, LF > > wins. > > > > Jonathan Borden > > > > Bill Carson > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Bob: Don't kid yourself about large forma!. I've used 4 X 5 and 5 X 7 > ><Snip> > > To each his own but don't kid yourselves! > Jonathan and Bill if you look at the top of the page is says Nikon. > I assure you that the reason a huge segment of pro photogs and serious amateurs > don't sell their medium format and larger sheet film format gear is that there > is real reasons for using them. There is a visible quality difference between > each format which compleatly justifies it's existence. Plenty of people here are > happy with the V35 Leica enlargers in their darkroom to print all thier 35mm > negs but just as many others KNOW what their twin lens Rolleiflex can give them > and on from there to their Speed Graphic of whatever sheetfilm deal they might > have. Rent a Hasselblad for weekend and find out for yourself. Or borrow a > Rolleiflex. Don't' trust that lens chart on that Nikon thing for a second!! > I would love to sell my Blads and fill out my Leica system/s but I can't live > without them, or my Rolleiflex TLR. > And yes on the other hand plenty of people have just committed to 35 and have > simplified their operations and just have that cute little V35 in their little > darkrooms and I say "good for them". > I love to tap dance on those bigger negs sometimes. Something you can sink your > teeth into! > Mark Rabiner