----- Original Message ----- From: "Cory Papenfuss" Subject: Re: 645D Musings
> Throwing in the, "You don't have experience with photography so > you cannot possibly know what you're talking about" card again? I do so > grow weary of that. The original comments were querying the comparison > between the different sensor sizes vs. film. The primary difference > between them all is technical (i.e. quality). Secondary effects are > artifacts of the format. > > So where does all this elitism so rampant on this list come from? > Rather tiresome. Cory, you've said yourself that you have trouble with visualizing, specifically: "I am cursed by the fact that I do not trust my own preference for"pleasing/accurate," ...." Don't jump on me for believing you, educate your eye instead. Photography is not about technical quality, it is about visualization, it's about what we see when we look at a picture on a piece of paper. As long as the technical quality reaches a benchmark of acceptability for that picture, it doesn't matter after that. I made a 16x20 print of a picture of one of my dogs. If you look at it hanging on the wall, the initial impression is that it is made from a larger negative than 35mm because there is no grain. Of course, it was made from a K10 digital file, which accounts for the lack of grain. Looking at the picture closer, the educated eye can see that while there is no grain, there is also a lack of really fine detail where one would expect to see it, if, in fact, it had been shot with a medium format camera. However, the picture works, since with portraiture, we accept a certain lack of fine detail. When I tell people that the picture they have shown deserves a Wisner, I am, in effect, saying that the picture, while well visualized and executed, won't meet my own personal criteria for technical quality, simply because I know the medium they are using won't capture the amount of fine detail I believe is necessary for the particular genre of image in question. When I bought my istD (I was one of the first people on list to have one), I recall noting that the image quality looked like medium format film due to the lack of grain, but also like 35mm film because of the lack of fine detail. I didn't have to take out a micrometer to figure this out. At the risk of sounding like an elitist, I've been doing this stuff for the better part of 4 decades, I know what I am talking about. If I come across as harsh, I apologize, but I think people try to quantize a lot of stuff that wouldn't require quantization if they took the time to visually educate themselves. You will recall that when I replied to the comment you posted, I told you exactly that. Be well William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
