Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:36 PM -0002 6/2/00, Greg Locke wrote: >At 01:14 AM 03/06/00 +0100, you wrote: >>on 2/6/00 7:39 am, Henning J. Wulff at henningw@archiphoto.com wrote: >> >> > When I shoot 35mm, I'm really happy if I get 5 enlargeables from a roll. >> > One is more like it. When I shoot 4x5, at least every second one is >>worth a >> > print. One 4x5 takes about as much effort as 36 35mm shots. Comes out >>even, >> > for the input effort. > >...like to see you slinging that 4X5 around on an oil rig, a fishing >trawler or my typical assignments, Henning. :^) Some situations were meant >for 35mm. > >Besides there is only one "BEST" shot from any shoot worth enlarging to any >degree. >Either you get it or you don't. > Greg, When I'm leaning out of a helicopter or on the end of the boom of a construction crane, or climbing up the outside of fly forms 500 ft up, I don't try to set up a tripod, but it higher enlargements are requested, and the light allows, I do use MF; usually the Mamiya 645. Handling that is no problem. Sometimes, if it seems it needs it, the CamboWide with 4x5 film is used with a Graphmatic back. Sometimes 35mm doesn't work. Sometimes it does. * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com