[rollei_list] Re: 80mm for portraiture
- From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:12:48 -0400
> Well it's all so cheap now isn't it? I have lenses I never dreamed I'd have
> when I was a kid, but at prices that still don't qualify me as a glutton. I
> even have more SLR bodies than I can use... To be honest, I wouldn't have
> thought about all the technicalities if it weren't for discussions like this,
> and I think it's been a good part of my on-going education. I appreciate the
> frustration Mark, but thanks all the same.
>
> I'm working on my first print that's taxing all my ability to problem solve
> and learn new skills, because I really want it right, and want to edition it,
> and all of a sudden all the gear in the world doesn't matter one bit. They're
> all just light boxes with curved glass over the hole. It's a portrait (a very
> good one, even if the highlights are pain to burn in) by the way, and I took
> it with my 2.8C. I don't mind the distortion one bit (not that I can see it).
>
> Elias
>
Print making is hard in the darkroom
Plenty of people with darkrooms never bothered to follow though and make a
really good print.
Took me years to make a print as good as what I¹d see in the middle of the
Pop and Modern photography magazines in the early 70¹s. Printed in Gravure.
A silver print should really look better than a gravure.
Mark William Rabiner
markrabiner.com
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