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Subject: Re: [Leica] Street photography using LF (Was: DOF, Perspective etc.)
From: "Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:07:13 -0500
References: <NBBBIDNIGLFOKNLJCPLHGELJELAA.danh@selectsa.com>

I know that Paul Strand did LF street photos in the late teens.  The work
was published in Stieglitz's "Camera Work" (available as a reprint).  He
used a very shiny false lens on the side of the camera and hid the real lens
under his sleeve.  I suspect he was using a Graphlex.

Mike D

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Honemann" <danh@selectsa.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 9:33 AM
Subject: [Leica] Street photography using LF (Was: DOF, Perspective etc.)


> Which makes me wonder... has anyone ever tried street photography with a
> large format camera?  If one could manage to plant the beast in a shady
> corner somewhere so as not to be _too_ conspicuous, couldn't wide, candid
> shots be taken covering much of the scene and then later enlarged and
> cropped to bring out only the interesting components?
>
> That might be a lot easier than trying to inconspicuously shoot up close
> with an M6 and 35 or 50.  Basically, with the large format, you'd get out
of
> the way during the shooting and do your composing in the darkroom rather
> than in the finder.
>
> I seem to recall reading somewhere that Garry Winogrand was considering
> using LF before he died.
>
> Dan
>
> > Depth of field is a function of viewing distance from the print, so it
is
> > determined by a lot more than just stuff you do in camera. The
> > standard DOF
> > tables are based on circles of confusion derived from viewing
> > distances for prints at certain degrees of enlargement.
>
>

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