[rollei_list] Re: Why Rollei T? (addendum)
- From: bigler@xxxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:34:14 +0200 (CEST)
>
> >> Some examples of R-T images (sorry, always the same images, nothing
> >> new)
> >>
> >> http://www.rollei-gallery.net/e-bigler/folder-3757.html
> >
> > Gorgeous!
> Further to this comment of mine - have you printed these shots, and
> if so, how large? Ardeshir <http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir>
From the images displayed on the digital rollei-gallery I have only
one 50x50 cm inkjet print of the Whitney image.
The job was made by Henri Peyre from Nîmes (France) for an exhibition
last year at the Nîmes School of Fine Arts.
The image was scanned with a Imacon (now : Hasselblad) professional
scanner and printed on a Epson professional inkjet printer.
http://www.galerie-photo.com/exposition-de-la-contemplation.html
http://www.galerie-photo.com/catalogue-expo.pdf
Sorry all those documents are in French.
After an unexpected tour to China, the exhibition will be hosted in
Switzerland in Montreux, Centre Culturel Maison Visinand from April 8
to July 20 2005.
The exhibition is devoted to high quality prints made from large
format (mostly 4x5" and 8x10") cameras but he asked me an example of
what can be done with an old 6x6 camera and a simple tessar lens.
Among various images I had extracted from my files, he selected the
Whitney-tessar image. There are many different styles of pictures and
different printing techniques in this exhibition. Prior to this I had
no idea of what a professional quality inkjet print is. I like the
fair competition between traditional and digital prints. The amount of
pixels in this image is about 30 million and film grain is perfectly
visible. To me when 30 million pixels full-frame 6x6 backs will be
available in the $1K price range I'm ready to switch to digital ;-)
this will come some day... probably sooner than I think.
As a rolleiphile I do not care for now, for color prints, modern color
slide film taken in my Rollei allows you to get the best of
traditional photography and modern or traditional printing.
Taking into account that you could redo the image with well-tuned
Rollei TLR on tripod equiped with a planar or xenotar plus a modern
ultra-fine grain colour slide film, you can be confident there are
still plenty of amazing pictures to take with 6x6 on film in the
future.
--
Emmanuel BIGLER
<bigler@xxxxxxxx>
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