Shel wroe:
>I advocate no particular cameras, lenses, or equipment - just that >whatever you use must be of the highest quality and properly adjusted in >order to obtain superior quality when making large-sized prints. Sure, but hand-held photography with 3200 ISO film has nothing to do with the "highest quality". I have no problems with this. I don't think you need the highest quality for certain types of photography. I'm sure his darkroom work is flawless but theres no way that you can achieve high resolution large prints with 3200 ISO film. The film doesn't have that resolution. That's why people use MF because you can't magnify 35mm frames much; not to mention 3200 ISO. The fact is that this kind of photography don't need high resolution or fine grain. Again I'm sure that the prints where flawless within their limitations but this has nothing to do with camera and lens used to capture the images. >Come back to this commentary when you've seen the exhibit and the >quality of the prints, and have compared them to other photographs of a >similar nature and size made with a consumer zoom. With 3200 ISO film you won't see any meaningful difference between a consumer zoom and any other quality lens. It's meaningless to say that you have to see the exhibition to know; unless there were parallel exhibition where the same image were shot with a consumer zoom and another lens there are no way of knowing except using common sense, laws of physics and experience. Again, I've never achieved ever the biting sharpness my best lenses can reach without using a tripod. You can get sharp images hand held but you won't get that last few percentage of sharpness that separate the merely good from the sublime without using fine grained film and a tripod. P�l - 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 .
