Shel, You bring up a good point. Each format has strengths and weaknesses. You obviously have to balance them to be able to create the pictures that you desire. I am not abandoning 35mm, just trying to use it only when MF's weaknesses outweigh it's strengths for a given situation.
Juan's posting made us see the weaknesses of 35mm without weighing against it's strengths. So I, and I'm sure others, used our own experiences to fill in and felt that a larger format would answer his issues. I can now see that it would address his issues but perhaps create even bigger problems than it solves. Bruce Dayton Thursday, February 14, 2002, 3:23:06 PM, you wrote: SB> Sure, a bigger neg will yield higher quality, but at the cost of SB> flexibility, portability, convenience, stealth, and so on. Those of you SB> who shoot pretty flowers and landscapes, and subjects that don't move, SB> can easily use and benefit from a larger format. However, for much of SB> what Juan does, and what I do, the 35mm format is just about ideal. SB> There are few, if any, medium format cameras that will allow the kind of SB> shooting I'm describing. SB> Bruce Dayton wrote: >> >> Boy, I gotta go with William on this. For quite a while I had been >> trying to procure and use the best optical quality lenses I could (for >> Pentax) and use the finest grained films that I could to try and >> improve the sharpness, clarity and tonal range of my pictures. I >> should have moved up to a larger format a few years ago. I can say >> that since I have finally taken the plunge, this is really fun! Almost >> feels like the early days with my first MX. And one look at the >> negative/slide and wow! What a difference. >> >> It is funny that as I look at the pictures stuck on the refrigerator >> from friends and relatives, now I can even see the difference at 4X6 >> and smaller. There is a bunch of stuff from P&S, 35mm and MF. It >> really shows. - 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 .
