Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One guys intolerance is another guys gross crass bass indulgence. To think that one can create a photograph of any respectable consequence on a chip of 24x36mm rollfilm is ridiculous. We all know that the only camera worth bothering with is a Deardorf. 8x10 inch hopefully but ideally an 11x14. To be contact printed on platinum paper which you coat yourself on 100% rag paper. Its obvious to anyone that once you project film it falls apart. A silver print is a pale imitation of a true photograph which is platinum. All the great photographers knew that. To hold a camera in ones hands and think one is going to make a decent photograph is a laugh. Your most important piece of year is a substantial wooden tripod. Few of your exposures will be less than a minute. Each sheet of film you shoot needs to be processed individually in trays in total darkness in dangerous and tricky Pyro developer wearing rubber gloves up to your elbows. The quality you get putting them in racks in a tank you're just kidding yourself. And my models are of courses virgins who bath in milk a full hour before every shoot. Their parents help with the poses. I have a metal rack thing behind their heads to keep them still for those 5 minute exposures. But they always blink the kids nowadays have no self control. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/