sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki) (03/07/85)
Let's really be snobbish.
You can't do "real" photography with anything smaller than a 4x5 view
camera. How else can you really control the perspective? How else can
you really get everything you want in focus? You can't just stop the
lens down because then you degrade the sharpness (diffraction effects).
You have to develop each piece of sheet film separately, and you have
to use the zone system to plan the exposure. You can't use color,
because you won't have the kind of control that you need. If you do use
color, you should shoot three shots through separation filters and
recombine later to form the color images, preferably as a dye transfer
print.
In case you need to know, each line above should have a :-) after it.
The technical points are not relevant. A camera is a tool. There are
different types of cameras. There are different types of people. Some
people find automatic cameras counter productive for their "serious"
photography. Other's find that automatic cameras give them the freedom
to concentrate on the subject.
The statement that all good photographs were taken with manual cameras,
and that manual cameras are needed for "serious" photography is crazy.
Eugene Smith made increadible photographs, most of them from really
lousy negatives. Smith was a great printer, so he could (and did)
compensate for his lousy negatives. If he had an automatic camera, who
knows what kind of photo's could have been made.
It is interesting to know how others work, what cameras they use, etc.,
but the quality of the images is what counts.
Marty Sasaki
Havard University Science Center
sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp}
617-495-1270
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Marty Sasaki
Havard University Science Center
sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp}
617-495-1270