Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner jotted down the following: > My personal opinion is that 4x6's from labs tend to lower everything to a > common denominator. > What if MOONRISE come out as a 4x6? > Ansel might have not bothered to make a 5x7 out of it! OK, I buy this, to a certain extent. I can agree that getting a set of 4x6" prints, rather than a contact sheet, there is the risk of viewing the 4x6s as some kind of "finished product", rather than a tool for evaluation. You make do, rather than critically evaluatate something that clearly cannot be a photograph on its own (a frame on a contact sheet) as a step to really making the photographic print. Conclusion: I still wouldn't disregard 4x6s completely, but it does place the onus on the photographer to see beyond the prints. OTOH, contacts file much easier... M. - -- Martin Howard | "Once you understand the process of co- Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | ordination, it's much easier to avoid. email: howard.390@osu.edu | Knowledge is power." -- K. Christoffersen. www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +--------------------------------------------