Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Roger, I'll take the risk along with you. All things being equal like you say, you just can't beat a large negative or transparency!! I use my 4x5 most of the time resorting to my Leicas when it is impractical to use the larger camera. I always have one of my M's with me so that I don't miss an image but if I see something that I really like I will come back with the 4x5. Once seeing a 4x5 transparency on the light table or printing a 35mm negative after working with a 4x5 one takes all of the arguments out of it for me. This is not a Leica put down - I just like lager negatives better. Ian Stanley Kathmandu, Nepal At 07:29 PM 97-10-27 -0700, you wrote: >Geez, I hate like hell to do this cause it'll likely start a format >flame war, but I just can't resist stating the obvious. > >If the shoot doesn't favor one format vs. another, such as street >action, expansive scenics where set up time is assumed and the wait for >the right light is inevitable, etc. the simple fact is that bigger *is* >better! > >Take the photographer, as a variable, out of the equation. Put the same >photographer behind the formats for the shoot, assume equal skill of >that photographer with the various formats, the best optics available >for the various formats, equal films etc., and, the results will favor >the larger formats every time! > >Oh my God, I invoked an absolute. Shields up...Go for it! >-- >Roger Beamon > Naturalist & Photographer > Leica Historical Society Of America > mailto:beamon@primenet.com > > Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only > truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, > like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of > our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of > painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of > a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. > > -- Bertrand Russell > > >