Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And the results are only as good as the practitioner... no matter the tool. Sent from my iPad On Sep 11, 2012, at 5:44 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Its not an issue of belief or what words I or someone types on their > keyboard. We are talking about photographs; results. Prints. They exist and > they speak for themselves. Of course they are totally viable. At least ten > years this stuff has been going on it was not invented yesterday. > You're calling it trickery in quotes but merging and stitching is the > accepted standard of the industry for at least wide angle larger format > results; there are cameras built with such stiching in mind sporting medium > format sliding multi step stitching digital backs. > > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > >> From: Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> >> Organization: Summa Ventures Ltd >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:31:40 +0100 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams Wilderness >> >> Rabs, >> >> very perceptive commentary. Do you believe that technically the printable >> quality now obtainable through this sort of "trickery", whether by chip or >> film, >> is as good as that obtainable with large format? >> >> Paul obviously does. But, do you? Do others? >> >> Peter >> On 07/09/2012 22:26, Mark Rabiner wrote: >>> It does seem audacious or even impudent for a respected worker to be out >>> in >>> Ansel Adams territory with a 35mm camera. ... 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. >> >> ... >>> >>> 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. >> >> ... >> >>> 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. >> >> ... >> >> -- >> >> =========================================================== >> Dr Peter Dzwig >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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