DEAR SNOOPY,
Welcome to your new house and darkrum...oops...darkroom! Please let me know
when you are up and running!
CHEER!
BOB
From: "Snoopy" <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2018 3:30:42 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Medium Format was: Enlarger lenses
Dear Bob and List,
as for 6x6 - I myself always had problems "thinking square" as in 6x6 - had no
budget for a Hassy but inherited an old Rollei TLR (64 years old now, still
working fine after a CLA, the leather case itself is a work of finest
crafts(wo)manship and art) which is also 6x6 and I found I cannot really get
used to square format as opposed to rectangular.
It is a very different way of seeing and capturing images... My friend Lance
has the proper sense of vision in squares and his pictures are awesome. (I
guess it's a genetic thang :-))
So "my" medium format is now rectangular 4.5x6 as in Mamiya 645 (the "small
medium format") but I agree with other list members: medium format is a huge
quality improvement to 35mm.
I also like the fact that the films are shorter, so it kind of slows you down
in the studio situation. It gives you more time to think and compose a shot,
because you need to change roll resp. film back a lot more often than with
35mm. I think medium/large format led to the introduction of studio assistants
who had to keep the magazines loaded.
That said, I have also gotten some large prints (50x70cm, 20"x28") with really
spectacular quality (the viewers words, not mine) from 35mm where people never
believed that it was "only" 35mm.
I think this is where firstly the good Minolta (yes still, not SONY) lenses on
the 35mm cameras (all true Minoltas) come into play and also I use an ancient
APO Rodagon in my enlarger which has excellent sharpness and contrast all the
way to the edges. So my "signal path" is really smooth.
Now all I have to do is take better pictures... :-)
Love,
Snoopy
PS sorry for the long silence - moved house (after nearly 20 years in the old
one, trauma time...) and now have a HUGE darkroom waiting to be refitted with
new pipes etc. :-) Very very exciting. Except the removal company now hates me
because they had to lug that tank of my ILFORD RC machine PLUS the spare one...
On 16/07/18 22:22, bobkiss caribsurf.com wrote:
DEAR JANET,
Yes, initially it can be confusing but the terms "6X6' and "120" are often used
interchangeably. By the way, I love your cell phone's spell check which
rendered Hasselblad as "hassle glad". Those cameras could, indeed, be a hassle
sometimes (when they jammed, you had a very expensive, useless box!!!) but I
was always glad I kept a second body and back up magazines and lenses. So
hassle glad, indeed! LOL!!!
CHEERS!
BOB
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