Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 3/12/02 henningw@archiphoto.com wrote: >>Just an hour ago i was looking at some of Josef Sudek's I genuflect to the awsome genius of Sudek! >> panoramas printed in >>a 1967 Swiss camera magazine, taken with a turn-of-the-(last)-century Kodak >>panoramic camera, the kind of camera with the curved film plane and the >>swiveling lens, and thinking I should buy the Widelux I know is >>available.... but when i think of what you are doing with a digital camera, >>and how I could spend hours more each day at the computer, moving pixels >>arounds, I just don't know. (ha) I do like your panoramas, which i have only >>duplicated (in a sense) by drymouting prints Hockney-like. they are labor intensive on the computer, that's for sure. several hours each. But at least you can shoot a bunch of them and take your pick. Since they are very hard to previsualise that is an enormous help. there is a massive difference between something like the widelux and a 360 cylindrical projection tho >> >>how are your portraits coming along? stalled really I don't have enough to make a book or exhibition or time to make many more. there is another convetion of the people I photographed in AZ in the fall but we are expecting a baby then so I dunno if I will get leave to go there. I think with another 10-15 of the same I will be good to go. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html