[Leica] Leica M6/Tri-X vs. Ricoh GR-D and Leica D-Lux 3

[glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer)]

Mitch,

Accepting grain or any other aberation as to being desired; is a perversion.

I may be different fromyou guys but I prefer the quality of a 4x5 negative.

Jerry


mitcha@mac.com wrote:
>> I've made plenty of darkroom C prints 40x60 inch from 35mm negs 
>> they're not a problem just as long as you don't put them next to a 
>> shot you took with a neg size more suited to those magnifications...
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> Mark:
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> I think you're overlooking artistic intent: it all depends what 
> aesthetic the photographer wants. In may case I don't want exquisite 
> medium-format prints: I want my photographs to have some "bite" or 
> grittiness.n Last year at the Sydney Biennale I saw a room with 60 
> Moriyama Daido prints, shot mostly on ISO 400 film with the Ricoh GR1 
> and GR21, printed on the Epson 9800 at 100x150cm (40x60 inches). They 
> were breathtaking. Had these prints been made from medium- or 
> large-format negatives they simply would have not been as great. One 
> size doesn't fit all, and not all of us want the "quality" of larger 
> negatives.
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> --Mitch/Bangkok
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