> On Oct 19, 2015, at 1:12 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here are a couple of the shots that gave me pause, where the plane of focus > seemed almost more geometrical then optical: > > http://i2.wp.com/roadsandkingdoms.com/uploads/2013/09/1200w_hor-talagante.jpg?w=2048&quality=75&strip=all > http://i1.wp.com/roadsandkingdoms.com/uploads/2013/09/1200-mike-and-david.jpg?w=2048&quality=75&strip=all > http://www.davidburnett.com/gallery.html?gallery=Big%20Camera#/15 > http://www.davidburnett.com/gallery.html?gallery=Big%20Camera#/1 > http://www.davidburnett.com/gallery.html?gallery=Big%20Camera#/14 > http://www.davidburnett.com/gallery.html?gallery=Big%20Camera#/11 > http://www.davidburnett.com/gallery.html?gallery=Big%20Camera#/12
Not that I understand what "more geometrical than optical" mean… They seem about right given the long and fast lens he's shown using in the first two. Seems to me you should pick up a Speed Graphic 4x5 and explore a new realm of photography. :-) >> So you can see the dynamics of format influence are very profound. Just >> sticking a lot of megapixels onto a tiny chip wafer does not net a large >> format camera view of the world. For my needs with a 35mm FF format camera, >> 24 MPixels are enough … More is occasionally nice, but mostly unnecessary. >> And no 35mm FF format camera supplants the Hasselblad 500 or SWC in terms of >> overall image dynamics … they're just too different. >> > In theory, with something like the Lytro you could recreate a lot of the feel > in post processing. I've used two Lytros … the original and an Ilium. I couldn't get anything that looks remotely like a Hasselblad image out of them. Here are three SWC images: https://flic.kr/p/hGKSHA https://flic.kr/p/f8GKsf https://flic.kr/p/eUTMeB The Lytro concept is interesting but doesn't interest me much—it seemed much more useful for moving images and images to be displayed electronically than for anything I do, which is print. That's why I didn't buy one. The Light L16 looks a lot more interesting for what I want … A relatively small camera that can make excellent prints in the simplest way possible, more like a Polaroid SX-70 than anything else. G -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
