Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you Don for leading me back to the right path. If I need more negative quality I will put my M6 on a tripod. BTW have you read Barry Thornton's new book 'Edge of Darkness'? It has a page of photos (48 of them!) taken with and without tripod, with and w/o lens lockup etc etc. There a a lot of other hands on comparison too, lenses incl enlarger lenses, films, developers, grain magnifiers, you name it. Barry has a website, it is his name dot com (I think) The books publisher (Argentum; is that not Gibson?) is at www.aurumpress.co.uk Chris >There has been a recent thread about Leica quality and medium format at >sizes to 11X14. Its not that medium format doesn't have the potential for >finer detail than Leica, it's how much trouble you have to go to make a >difference and whether it's worth the effort for the project at hand. > >Yes, at middle apertures,(exception granted to certain 100mm or so F2 Zeiss >lenses) using a tripod or studio lights you will get better detail with >medium format. Do the same with a 90 APO on E100SW and the differences will >be small, very small. Now, take that 6X7 out and do street photography or >macro in the field and compare the results with what you can do with an M6 >or R8 and comparable lenses. Let's all think about Tina in some abode in >Honduras setting up the tripod for the extra detail: hold still for about 10 >seconds while the shutter is open! . Obviously, if you are doing catalogue >work in the studio you are using something with swings and tilts with a >digital back > >Put another way, this is almost the same debate that started in the 30's and >continued to the early 60's as photography moved from 8X10 and 4X5 to 120 in >Rollie's and 35mm in Leica's, Contax's, and later Nikons. As lenses and >films improved most work moved to the next smaller format. Even landscape >calendar work is moving into medium format and some 35mm. > >Last, all of this is soon moot as digital takes over more and more work. >With better capture devices and clever software interpolating what should be >there the images will snap with fine detail. Think about Adobe's healing >brush algorithms in a digital camera to create texture from small samples. > >In summary, my point is that for most uses, what good technique can wring >out of top notch 35mm(digital) will satisfy most uses in nature, journalism, >macro, street, documentation, fashion, advertising, and now wedding. Uses >that require tremendous sizes, billboards, outdoor, vain art directors, >catalogue, and calendar work , and artists will still go to medium and large >format capture. > >Just trying to get back to photography :) > >Don >dorysrus@mindspring.com > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Christer Almqvist D 20255 Hamburg and / or F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html