Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow, I thought I was reading an APUG posting for a moment :-) Scott Mark Rabiner wrote: >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/ > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >