Oh good lord! 1980's the stone age...
35mm took over for publication in the late 50's early 60's. Before that the Rolleiflex was king for a few years and for decades before that the Speed Graphic was the camera of choice. Since the 40's, at least, 35mm was adequate in quality but required very good technique to get the best out of it. By the 70's it was all automated and you had to screw up to make a technically unacceptable image with 35mm. All the above refers to film technology. With modern films even the 35mm cameras made in the 30's, except the very cheapest, produce adequate images. Very good photography has been done since at least the 1890's, prior to that it was a pretty inconvenient process. It always amazes me that people seem to think no one could produce a decent photograph before cameras did their thinking for them. But then, I have met people who think no one could add and subtract before they invented the pocket calculator. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Funny thing about this whole "digital camera quality > thing" is that when I recently looked back at John > Shaw's first "How To" book published in 1984, I marvel > at the incredible sharpness & grain-free images he > produced with 35mm equipment & film & old manual > equipment. Incredible quality by ANY standard. And get > this, this book was printed in the 1980's!!
