Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I still have my Xpan, and love it. The lenses are superb, and the camera is well made, except for the covering. I have always felt most at home with it, even ahead of the OM's. One of the rumor (rumour) sites thinks that part of Hasselblad's big photokina announcement is a digital Xpan. I await anxiously. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Rabiner Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 4:26 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams Wilderness It does seem audacious or even impudent for a respected worker to be out in Ansel Adams territory with a 35mm camera. I'm seeing this with this post of an not new thread in kind of in a new light. Ansel A. would climb these mountains before modern mountain climbing methods and been invented yet with an 8x10 camera on his back and a half dozen 8x10 glass plates in his early 20's. And with his wife, Virginia Best Adams right behind him all the way up and all the way down the mountain. Amazing they survived even without the gear. And the results they got were clearly worth with risk and adventure. The images one gets contact printing or enlarging 8x10 negs or transparencies is very hard to beat and has a way of standing alone in a room filled with prints of smaller formats. But what Ansel didn't have and we have now is the ability to merge individual exposures together and with each one we've in effect increased our format size by that much. I see in the B&H catalog cameras which seem to be designed with stitching in mind. Wide angle digital cameras. So we have a decisive new paradigm shift now in how we might obtain images with an astounding amount of breath taking information . The word "coverage" can be used in a whole new way in photography. Very large format results possible with very small formats. We could go out with even smaller cropped digital sensors and work spontaneously and then with carful stitching made large format results. And I think here on the lug we've seen some from pocket point and shots with sensors the size of your baby fingernail. I saw it in some ways it all starting with Hasselblad marketing its 35mm pan camera the Xpan as a "medium format camera" which shoots 35mm film. Though really it had existed before with the bigger pieces of the brownie film pie 6x12 and 6x17 formats. Roll film. But with sheet film acreage. These merges by Paul and some other Lug members are truly head revolving a full 361 degrees. ..."inspiring" is an understatement!!! Click-click-click-click-click! Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Lottermoser George <imagist3 at mac.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:49:15 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams Wilderness > > > On Aug 17, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Paul Roark wrote: > >> In the first week of August I backpacked into the Ansel Adams >> Wilderness with Roy Harrington. I am putting the images I work on at >> http://www.paulroark.com/Ansel-Adams-Wilderness.html >> >> To reduce the weight as much as possible, the M9 and 35mm f/2.8 Zeiss >> Biogon were the extent of the camera equipment. No tripod -- which >> makes the shot of flowing water all the more interesting to think >> about. >> >> All images were combinations of multiple frames. Sun over Lake Ediza >> was 15 frames -- two rows of 7 plus one for the sun. > > so very fine > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information