[Leica] M's vs 4x5 (?!?)

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Bob, Bob, Bob - Much as I love my Ms - not that I'm using them much
these days - and much as I have always been a 35 mm guy, I have to ask
not what you're smoking, but what you're shooting up...:-)

There is no physical possibility for a 35 frame to produce in terms of
fine detail, lack of grain, etc., what a 4x5 frame of the same film - or
practically any other film - can produce.

Now, does anyone need that fine detail, etc.? That's an entirely
different topic. And, as Buzz noted, you don't need a Sherpa to know
which way the M goes... ;-)

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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
buzz.hausner@verizon.net
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 2:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] M's vs 4x5 (?!?)


A Sherpa.
> 
> From: "Robert Palmieri" <rpalmier@depaul.edu>
> Date: 2004/06/10 Thu PM 01:52:56 EDT
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] M's vs 4x5 (?!?)
> 
> Folks -
> 
> Well, I'm going shooting in an arboretum this weekend with one of my 
> 4x5 totin' buddies.  In classic David and Goliath fashion I've decided

> to bring nothing but Leica-related gear.  I'll be attempting to test a

> hunch of mine that under certain conditions (all objects of interest 
> at relatively the same distance from the camera, no need to stop down 
> too far, etc) our 35mm tools of choice just might be able to hold 
> their own.
> 
> The main advantage seems to be that most of us can afford (in terms of

> cost and bulk) to carry a wider assortment of primes in order to be 
> able to get a lot of shots from a lot of positions without the need 
> for cropping.  I'll be packing 15 & 21mm Voightlanders, 35 4th gen 
> 'cron, 50 collapsible 'cron and 85mm Nikkor.  I might also bring along

> an SL with 60 & 90 Elmarits and the 400 Telyt in case a nice bird or 
> two present themselves.
> 
> Films will be Acros 100 (my usual choice for such applications) and 
> Velvia (likely to be printed in B&W.)  At the last minute Bob Meier 
> sent me a test roll of Tech Pan that he developed in Technidol, with 
> some really nice results. The negs look to be surprisingly long in 
> scale, and although I'm a bit unfamiliar with this material I just 
> don't think I'll be able to leave home without it now.
> 
> So, besides the use of my trusty Tiltall, a long cable, hoods/no 
> filters & optimum apertures, does anyone have some last-minute advice 
> (other that suddenly upgrading my lenses to some fancier modern 
> stuff)? Really, my goal is to come back with snaps that I like, but 
> comparisons in the ways that these disparate hardware rigs render the 
> subjects will be inevitable...
> 
> Bob Palmieri

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