[LargeFormat] RE: Horseman or Gandolfi?
Stuart Phillips
largeformat@f32.net
Sun Jun 1 01:36:15 2003
What lenses do you use with the AII? Does it have back shift?
Thanks in advance.
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From: "Diane Maher" <colrehogan@earthlink.net>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 12:24 AM
Subject: [LargeFormat] RE: Horseman or Gandolfi?
> I use a Toyo 45 AII out in the field. I look at a monorail and think it
> looks cumbersome. Mind you, I've never had one or had the opportunity
> to try one, so maybe I'm not the best person to listen to. I take
> landscape and IR pictures. :)
>
> As far as digital, I've thought about it, but can't make myself do it.
> I just don't feel like I'll be getting much out of the digital world.
> Scanning my shots takes long enough as it is. However, as I don't have
> an enlarger, I will try to print out my pictures after I scan them. I
> finally got a new printer today. Lately the thought of 8x10 and
> alternate processes have started to appeal to me. I would like to see
> an 8x10 before committing to it though.
>
> Diane
>
>
>
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> From: "Vincent Dobson" <manitec@bellsouth.net>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Subject: RE: [LargeFormat] Horseman or Gandolfi?
> Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 20:41:38 -0400
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
>
> Seems everyone is going digital ---- 'cept me! They will have to pry my
> chemicals out of my hands and surgically remove the enlarger so they can
> fit
> my body in the coffin. --- Long live the old way!
>
> Vince Dobson
> Visions In Nature
> www.VisionsInNature.com
>
> <:)<< Silly prices right now (possibly to do with move to digital backs
> <:)> using medium format cameras). >>
>
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> Message: 12
> From: "Stuart Phillips" <stuart.phillips@rcn.com>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Horseman or Gandolfi?
> Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 21:18:42 -0400
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
>
> Are you a veteran? Most veterans' cemeteries have a special area for
> oversized coffins/vaults so you could take your enlarger with you.
>
> As to the original point, I scan. But I seem to have ZERO interest in
> getting a digital camera. I guess it makes sense for many professionals
> but
> I certainly mourn the disappearance of all those family pics in the
> attic.
> The number of ordinary people who will do real back-ups of those files
> must
> be negligible.
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> From: "Vincent Dobson" <manitec@bellsouth.net>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 8:41 PM
> Subject: RE: [LargeFormat] Horseman or Gandolfi?
>
>
> > Seems everyone is going digital ---- 'cept me! They will have to pry
> my
> > chemicals out of my hands and surgically remove the enlarger so they
> can
> fit
> > my body in the coffin. --- Long live the old way!
> >
> > Vince Dobson
> > Visions In Nature
> > www.VisionsInNature.com
> >
> > <:)<< Silly prices right now (possibly to do with move to digital
> backs
> > <:)> using medium format cameras). >>
> > <:)
> >
> >
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> Message: 13
> From: "Vincent Dobson" <manitec@bellsouth.net>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Subject: RE: [LargeFormat] Horseman or Gandolfi?
> Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 21:48:30 -0400
> Reply-To: largeformat@f32.net
>
> I am --- thanks for the tip - I might need the D5 in the next life?
>
> My opposition to digital photography is two fold - one fold best
> explained
> with this situation. I often see a site and plan a particular
> photographic
> composition involving the Sunrise, Moonset, high water flow etc etc. I
> love
> the moon as a photographic element in a scene. Close to me (facing
> East) is
> a great view of an old barn with a drive going past and a great looking
> white gate. Most important is a particularly unique shaped old tree. I
> want to get a shot of the Moon rising over the barn at Sunrise. I've
> been
> trying for this shot for 5 years - I'm hampered by the fact it must be
> when
> the Moon rises here at 115 Azimuth (+- 5 degrees) at the exact time
> required
> to have the moon in great detail and sufficient Sunset light to
> illuminate
> the scene. If I could then just have vibrant red washboard clouds ---
> naw,
> that is just too much to ask or expect!
>
> I could take a great Sunset picture of the scene (perhaps even with the
> clouds) then digitally insert the Moon - not me -- you see the art to me
> is
> in the journey - the effort required to get the shot, not the end
> picture.
>
> I just grow sick of seeing (at Art and Craft shows for instance)
> mediocre
> photographs that have been modified in Photoshop (perhaps with the
> "watercolor" button. Then they show it off and proclaim "I'm an
> artist!" --
> I beg their pardon --- the artist was the guy that wrote the computer
> program.
>
> I have shots I'm most proud of --- ones I've taken years to find the
> elements just right - the fog drifting up the river and the incoming
> tide
> timed just right to negate the force of the river flow and all at the
> exact
> moment of Sunrise - the incoming tide stilling the flow enough that I
> could
> get a long exposure off and keep details of the houseboat crisply in
> focus.
> I speak of "Riverhouse" I tried for I think 5 years before all elements
> were timed perfectly. The next year the Corp of Engineers made everyone
> take their houseboats off of the river.
>
> There is one other reason I will perhaps explain at another time.
>
>
>
> Vince Dobson
> Visions In Nature
> www.VisionsInNature.com
>
> <:)Are you a veteran? Most veterans' cemeteries have a special area for
> <:)oversized coffins/vaults so you could take your enlarger with you.
> <:)
>
>
>
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