Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/10

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Subject: [Leica] Leica M6/Tri-X vs. Ricoh GR-D and Leica D-Lux 3
From: mitcha at mac.com (mitcha@mac.com)
Date: Sun Jun 10 18:57:52 2007

> I've made plenty of darkroom C prints 40x60 inch from 35mm negs  
> they're not a problem just as long as you don't put them next to a  
> shot you took with a neg size more suited to those magnifications...

Mark:

I think you're overlooking artistic intent: it all depends what  
aesthetic the photographer wants. In may case I don't want exquisite  
medium-format prints: I want my photographs to have some "bite" or  
grittiness.n Last year at the Sydney Biennale I saw a room with 60  
Moriyama Daido prints, shot mostly on ISO 400 film with the Ricoh GR1  
and GR21, printed on the Epson 9800 at 100x150cm (40x60 inches). They  
were breathtaking. Had these prints been made from medium- or large- 
format negatives they simply would have not been as great. One size  
doesn't fit all, and not all of us want the "quality" of larger  
negatives.

--Mitch/Bangkok

Replies: Reply from glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer) ([Leica] Leica M6/Tri-X vs. Ricoh GR-D and Leica D-Lux 3)