Enabling at its finest. I don't have anything to add, just thought we should all read this again. <g>
--Mike William Robb wrote: > I didn't think I wanted to get involved with medium format > either. I was using a very good 35mm camera, with a very good > lens, and had my processing routine nailed down securely. I was > shooting Panatomic-X and was making nearly grainless 11x14 > prints with what I thought was excellent tonal range. > Then a friend bought a Hasselblad. I was astounded at how > effortlessly he was able to turn out pictures of amazing > technical quality. One day, we each took identical pictures of > my Harley. In my picture, you could just make out the brass key > fob hanging off the ignition stitch in front of the oil tank. In > his picture, you could plainly see the eagle that was engraved > on it. > A short time later, I bought into a medium format camera > (Bronica ETRs, 645). The quality improvement in my photos was > immediate and tremendous. Suddenly, my pictures had real tonal > range, and visible fine detail. > I was totally hooked on the larger negative, and when the > opportunity presented itself to move up the format ladder again, > I jumped to the Pentax 6x7. > While not a quantum leap in quality like the move from 35mm to > 645 had been, the bigger negative did give a very visible > quality improvement. Enough that I would never consider the 645 > format again. > The biggest print size I make on a regular basis is 11x14, with > the occasional 16x20, and the rare 20x24. > I have had the ability to compare prints made with the same > film, to the same size of print from 6x7 and 4x5. The difference > is pretty non existent until 20x24, which is a size I feel is > impossible to get a technically acceptable print from 35mm. > > I expect I have mentioned this before, but I truly believe that > aspiring photo artists (and I think most on this group fit the > description in one way or another) owe it to their craft to use > medium format equipment. > I can work my tail off to get good results from 35mm, I can nail > down my exposure and process the film just right to make sure > the image is on the sweet part of the curve, and still not have > an image as technically good as a hack medium format negative > where I have barely paid attention to the meter, and sort of > half assed slopped the film around in the chemistry for a while. > HTH > William Robb > - - - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
