----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" Subject: RE: *ist D
. > > I have become a large format junkie and have no > interest in a tiny 6Mp sensor for serious photography > whatsoever. I want more than that and a full frame > sensor. I can wait. I have a lot of top quality > FULL FRAME lenses & I want to use their entire > image, especially on the wide angles... > > If you are only a 35mm shooter, > than a 6Mp DSLR is an quality improvement, if you shoot > 4X5 and 8X10 it is NOT. You have also become incredibly narrow minded (or were you always that way?). I am also a large format shooter, as well as medium format, 35mm, and now, it seems, a digital SLR user. I can assure you that the bottom line in photography is not lppm (or lpm, lets not get into that again), or MTF, or whatever else people use to fool themselves into thinking they are getting something better. Photography is about going from something we can only see to something we can hold in our hands. Nothing more. The camera is a tool, not a religion. Film is just film, large format is just one way of shooting. You equate large format to the Holy Grail. I used to do that as well, some 20 years ago when I discovered 4x5. I grew up a little more, and I got past it. The large format camera, as much as I like the results, and as much as I like shooting with it, is only one way of doing things. Of course, if that is all you do, thats fine. I prefer to not limit myself though. A lot of the large format guys I know like to use 8x10 lenses on their 4x5 cameras. Apparently, using only the center of the image circle gives sharper pictures. Never once did I hear any of them bemoan the fact that they were wasting image circle. As a matter of fact, in 30 years of active photography, this is the first time I have seen anyone try to dismiss a format with such a specious justification. Anyway, I am off to have fun with my new tool. Probably taking pictures that would be impossible to take with 4x5, since I would be using 4x5 to take pictures with if that was my mood. L8R William (Digital Boy) Robb
