[LargeFormat] Biggest is Best Maybe?

[Stuart Phillips]

Couldn't you save some weight and leave the film holders behind?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Biggest is Best Maybe?


> Ok, 20s or 30s.  I guess that's why the prospect a moving a 20x24 off
> into the woods doesn't appeal to me at age 61.
>
> I joke with people who ask me when I'm out with the 11x14, that there
> are no good photographs more than 100 feet from the car but actually I'm
> good for walking about 10 minutes with it, an LL Bean bag with three
> film holders, etc., and the Majestic tripod.
> -- 
>
> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
>
>
>
> Les Newcomer wrote:
> >
> > If I remember by college history of photography, WHJ was 99 when he
> > died in '42,  so he would have been in his 30's or late 20s. I think
> > his foray's in to Yellowstone was in 1870-1874 ish and it was his
> > photographs that help bring about the National park system. Yellowstone
> > was the first and was designated as such July 4th, 1876.   I only know
> > this as I was there 100 years later, armed with only an Argus C-3 I'm
> > ashamed to say.
> >
> > Les
> >
> > On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 01:45  PM, Jim Hemenway wrote:
> >
> > > How old was he at the time he used the 20x24?
> > > --
> > >
> > > Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Les Newcomer wrote:
> > >>
> > >> that's what I always admired about William Henry Jackson..   He used
a
> > >> 20x24 wet plate camera in Yellowstone!, and I doubt he shot from the
> > >> parking lot either.
> > >>
> > >> Les
> > >
>
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