[Leica] Re:Black ZI

[creativevisions at verizon.net (Michael J Herring)]

There is nothing as beautiful as a large format contact print on silver or
platinum paper!
Wynn Bullocks are breathtaking.

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 12:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Black ZI


>I recall Avedon shot the Berlin wall falling with a Rolleiflex with big
> pieces of torn 2 inch masking tape on the back on it saying what the ASA
> or
> camera number it was.
> Then if it was as if he put them away for good in lieu of shooting 8x10
> for
> the remaining decade and a half of his life with several assistants all
> helping making it an automatic kind of a thing.
>
> What the heck? Why fool around. There's a time when you want to make
> everything count.
>
> I may pick one up for a few hundred bucks. A calumet C1. Somehow land a
> lens.
> Run them in trays one by one.
> Then scan them with a 99 dollar scanner and make for results outdoing a
> $40,000 medium format digital back or certainly any digital camera.
>
> Make digital contact prints! :)
>
> It's not as if you need an 8x10 enlarger any more.
> It's not as if you ever did.
> As an 8x10 contact print is a thing to itself.
> Which anyone who saw the Edward Weston show this year knows.
>
>
> And 8x10 Kodachrome transparencies Weston did.
> Which were actually to me pretty boring but at least at last I got to
see
> some 8x10 Kodachrome.
>
> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/
>
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