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Subject: [Leica] photography today is GARBAGE
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Thu Jul 14 08:06:52 2005
References: <BEFACD27.1843A%mark@rabinergroup.com>

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/
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