Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] 35 mm format is best?
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:28:09 -0500
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When I finally retire back to the home where I was raised, I have a 
relatively clean darkroom still in the garage where I built it (of 2x4's and 
masonite) back in 1968. Mom is currently using it for storage. 

Jeffery


On Aug 26, 2010, at 6:25 PM, Richard Man wrote:

> And as far as hobby go, one can do a lot worse than photography.
> 
> On Aug 26, 2010 3:51 PM, "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I loved the appearance of Panatomic-X developed in Rodinal. I still like
> the coal blacks of silver halide, and haven't been able to manipulate
> digital camera images in PS to replicate that look. Now that I have only 2
> hair-shedding animals in the house (down from 7), I'm going to start 
> souping
> film again. I trust that any pet hair that hasn't been vacuumed up with
> stick to the emulsion of the first roll.
>> 
>> Jeffery
>> 
>> On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> 
>>> Trust me Jeffery I have long experience with Panatomic x it is my
> signature
>>> film. Panatomic in 35mm does not a Rolleiflex or Hasselblad make.
>>> I had to prove that well known fact to myself before I started saving up
> for
>>> medium format systems.
>>> The bottom line with film as well as digital capture is always going to
> be
>>> Real estate real estate real estate.
>>> Acreage acreage acreage.
>>> You can set your little format camera to iso 100 but as an image making
> tool
>>> a larger format camera is going to still blow it out of the water on a
> slew
>>> of accounts.
>>> This is not my quirky opinion but the first thing anybody learns when
> they
>>> get into photography either in the classroom, in the real world, or
> reading
>>> a good photography book. The point in denying that is what? You don't get
> to
>>> play with little cameras?
>>> 
>>> As far as this thread name goes... It is just as poorly thought out as
> the
>>> text which was under it.
>>> 35mm is not "best" and I certainly never implied that and didn't see
> anybody
>>> else imply that.
>>> What is "best" is not crippling yourself with a format smaller than
>>> necessarily to get the shot done well.
>>> 
>>> --------------------
>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>> Photography
>>> mark at rabinergroup.com
>> 
>> 
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