Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Right; and it's a beautiful, fun and useful thing to have: 4x5, 5x7 and split slides for 2 - 4x10, 2 - 5x8 or 4 - 4x5 on the Deardorf. and 6x9 roll back for the 4x5 Technika as always - the photograph made with whatever format - remains the point and the challenge Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Mar 13, 2010, at 10:44 PM, Jim Nichols wrote: > I agree with all of your reasons. That's not my point. People > have been doing this sort of thing for almost a century. I have my > late father-in-law's studio camera boxed up out in my garage, a > wooden 8x10 monster, with a wooden crank-up tripod. For the sake > of economy, he had fitted it with a 5x7 back that was designed to > provide two 3.5x5 exposures on 5x7 sheet film. That was how he > made portraits, which he sold to put food on the table. And, with > that equipment, he turned out beautiful work. We have a lot of > family portraits that attest to that.