[rollei_list] Re: "Advantage of 4x5 over medium format" (was: Austin has Unsubscribed)
- From: Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:36:25 -0700
Well, first one has to master what they already have.
Since you've wadded into medium format only recently, get some mileage
with it before you bolt to the siren's call of 4x5. Don't get
distracted!!!
S. Dimitrov
On Apr 19, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Thor Legvold wrote:
> Ardishir & co (esp. Bob, Richard, Jim had he still been here...)
>
> assuming one was in the market for a "user" 4x5 <*> Graphic, what
> model/version would one be looking for? I know nothing about those
> cameras, but you've piqued my interest. I see that they often show up
> on eBay, although I have no idea of price. I don't have a darkroom for
> prints, but developing negatives isn't a problem.
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> I have no plans (nor money) to buy anything now, but would like to know
> more. I can archive the thread for when I'm ready to pick something up
> :-)
>
> Thor
>
> On 19. apr. 2005, at 17.13, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:
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>> On Tuesday, April 19, 2005, at 04:50 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
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>>> [T]he advantage of 4x5 over medium format is [that] 4x5 has amazing
>>> creamy smooth high tones. Highlights.
>>> The lighter tones are thicker and more solid.
>>> That's the only way I can describe them.
>>> Better than medium format and much better than 35mm.
>>> Crispy as the small format stuff is.
>>> It's also crunchy.
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>> Amen.
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>> I find that neither of my two Rolleis can touch the quality of the
>> pics
>> from my Anniversary Speed Graphic, when I do manage to shoot with the
>> Speed Graphic. But the number of pictures I take with the Speed
>> Graphic
>> is minuscule compared with the number I take with my Rolleis (and now,
>> even my newly-acquired Contaflex), because of the hassle involved in
>> using LF, especially loading the film into individual holders.
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>> I just "won" two Grafmatic backs for the Speed Graphic on eBay, and
>> loaded one of them with B&W (the other has not yet arrived here), so I
>> hope that the situation will improve now. But the Kalart rangefinder
>> on
>> the Anni is off, and will have to be fixed before I can use the Anni
>> hand-held. Or else another Kalart RF bought on eBay and fitted to the
>> Anni.
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>> Cheers.
>>
>> Ardeshir <http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir>
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Slobodan Dimitrov
http://sdimitrovphoto.com
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