Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anyone tried the newish Bronica 6x4.5 rangefinder? dan c. At 07:10 PM 01-08-01 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote: >><Snip> >> >> Herb Ritts shot the 1999 Pirelli calendar using a Mamiya RZ... a number of >> shots using the 150/3.5. I'm not sure about you, but when I saw the >> calendar, I certainly said, amongst other things..."WOW!" >> >> Kim >> >Both Herb Ritts and Anne Leibowitz have mentioned much of the allure of 6x7 is >it's incredible impact on the light table. >This is why photographers use 6x7. I'd go 645 any day. >It use to be that the additional average did not make up for Mamiyas low >contrast optics. >But people needed that impact on the light table and would use them anyway. >Now their optics are more than OK. They cost a lot more and have been upgraded. >Frankly i find it astounding that so many of the best people find acreage on the >light table so crucial to how their work goes over to the extent that they would >use such a clunky piece of trash as a Mamiya 67 RB or RZ. >Hell Ritts and Leibowitz are more famous than just about anyone they'd ever >photograph, who do they need to impress? >"Only as good as their last image" would be what's on their minds. > >The rangefinder i can get excited about. The RB's and RZ's put me off. >A 6x6 camera needs to be twice the size to make it 6x7? >But the fact is a 6x7 Looks miraculously twice the size on the light table. >It's as if you need a Loup to see 6x6 but don't' need one to see 6x7. >No it makes no statistical sense. > >I've been there making the presentations and i know how it feels. >I've made some of mine by showing up with a tray so what they first see are >projected images from 35mm transparencies. >NOT laid out on a light table where larger slides of half the quality will have >twice the impact. > > >Mark Rabiner > >Portland, Oregon >USA > >http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/ >