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Subject: [Leica] Ansel Adams Wilderness
From: rgacpa at gmail.com (Bob Adler)
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:58:42 -0700
References: <CC74AA61.236BC%mark@rabinergroup.com>

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    
>> 
>> 
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