Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/11
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Those full page reproductions showed what large format could do.....
Jerry Lehrer <> wrote:
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...
>
> Mark:
>
> 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.
>
> --Mitch/Bangkok
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