Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes Mark but you are -just- like Barnacks contemporary critics, never accepting that a smaller format could ever produce acceptable results. Well Leica proved them wrong, not as good as MF, 5x4 and 10x8 obviously, but entirely useable for reasonably sized prints and much more convenient for use hand held, traveling, climbing etc.. Today few people argue that MF digital sensors don't produce better results (at least in bright light), but superb and totally acceptable results in prints much bigger than Barnack would ever have believed possible are being made in their billions by people using the smaller sensors nowadays. Just like 35mm film displaced 120. Get used to it, you are a dinosaur - just like all Barnack's critics back in the 1920s. FD On 3 Feb, 2013, at 08:05, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Well Gary I think that there was a guy named Barnack who thought a lot of > work could be done with a quality compact camera with a 24x36mm format. > After much thought he didn't go with 24x18 as a few others in the time were > going. Which was called "single frame" he went with "double frame" taking > up > twice the film in length an at the time a bit of an unusual move. > His hunch was proved right. It turned out that most of what you'd ever want > to do could be done in that format for a hundred years later. > There's really nothing arbitrary about it and its not a minor subject. > As is its WAY more of an important issue that lenses. > If the thread bores you please continue playing with your cameras which > could come out of a box of crackerjacks and ignore the posts about eagerly > waited for larger format compacts. > Me I'll be not be totally happy until the first medium format compact comes > out. An in effect: digital Fuji folder > > > On 2/3/13 1:40 AM, "Gary Benson" <bensonga at gmail.com> wrote: > >> All these arguments over format size get very tiresome, very quickly. >> Some people will think if any subject is worth shooting at all, only >> 8x10 film will do. Others are quite happy to shoot with something >> else. >> >> I really thing good photos can be made with any camera.....they will >> just be "good" in different ways >> >> I say.....pick the camera or format that works best for you and your >> shooting requirements and leave the rest of us to do the same. >> >> Gary >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information