Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To me the bottom line of this thread is simply that you cannot push a format past certain point no matter how fine the glass is. Encountered a rather gross example of this once in the Leica-Gallery in lower Manhattan. There was a bw-exhibit by a sizable group of well known photojournalists (all shoting Leicas, I assume this was the entry requirement...). The work was all about 40 x 50 cm & around it a matte with Leica printed on it. Being mostly streetwork it was probably shot with HP5, TriX and such. So all this was neatly framed and hanged on the walls. But it is a small place and consequently it was really cramped - - the pieces were next to each other, with essentially no space between. So to appreciate any one of them and not being distracted by the others you had to stand real close, like a meter or so. The work looked uniformly bad, the grain dominated and it was just so obvious that the pictures were too big. Regards, Kari PS: sorry if this a a second copy. Realized that the previous went to the owner-l.-u.... & don't know what that actually means =:-0 ...