[rollei_list] Re: Marvin Wallace and I Disagree

I agree with Marc 200% on this. Maybe even 300%!
Living on the West (left) Coast, near Ansel Adams' home, as I was growing up, photographing along the coast, I would meet-up with Ansel. We were acquaintances. I have seen many of Ansel's proof prints (first prints from a 4x5 or 8x10 neg), full frame. Not only does his final display prints from these negs not look anything like the first proof print, they are all CROPPED!
There is NO SUCH THING as being able to produce the perfect composition with a fixed focal length camera system. Perhaps there are situations where you have scads of space fore and aft allowing appropriate movement for that perfect composition. But this is very rare. There is always a river, cliff, tree, building, freeway, whatever, in the way and my SL66 is sans zoom. So I crop! As does everyone else that I know. Although I suspect there are a lot of folks in SFO that don't crop! Maybe even Marin! 

Jim


On Sep 24, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Marc James Small wrote:
Wow. Trust me on this, the Dag guys didn't crop. Trust me, every photographer since then has cropped. I have seen a lt of historic negatives and have then seen the prints made from them: they were cropped.
Cropped photos are life. I cannot comprehend the sort of anal- retentive mindset which demands that all pictures be printed full- frame. It just does not work that way. Any one who has spent time in a dark room has experienced the process of just HOW to crop a decent negative. A lot of poor pictures produce a great cropped image. 

Marc



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