Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/01
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I've looking for something that causes people to spontaneously get naked in public! Thanks, the best reason I've come across to go large format.
Chris Saganich
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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Peter Klein
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:13 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] The 8x10 Experience
Mark: So what you're saying is that "size matters?" Just like all those
emails I have to delete every morning? :-)
I can see the ad campaign now. A picture of a battered Leica M7 on the
floor, a huge crack across the face of its once-proud 35/1.4 Summilux
ASPH. Above it, on a huge tripod, an 8x10 view camera looms, flexing its
bellows in triumph. Caption: "When you're ready for a REAL camera, try
Calumet."
- --Peter
Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 7. People will gladly strip naked for you at the spur of the moment on
> the corner of Broadway and 1st avenue during rush hour if you point an
> 8x10 view camera at them and climb behind it.
> No so with rollfilm and lessor sheet film. This has been proven. An 8x10
> view camera commands a respect other cameras are not in the league of.
> This makes photo subjects act differently and the people watching the
> shoot act differently and the recipient of the print act differently.
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