How about a SINGLE exposure? (Decisive Moment) How about selective DOF? How about lower distortion? How about camera movements? How about accurate composition on the ground glass. How about a true Plane of focus at ANY distance? There's probably a whole lot more too....
Those reasons above are huge and make the stitching technique seriously limited compared to normal LF photography. I think the DSLR solution is a better digital camera with a bigger and higher resolution sensor, not stitching. But even then you arent going to get the movements with all your lenses like you do with LF. JCO -----Original Message----- From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 9:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Large Format vs. Digital/Stitching Larry is selling all his large format equipment because stitching is better for him than LF. if you want to define the small area where a 4x5 camera is still superior as the only thing that matters to you, go right ahead. the examples shown and discussed are none of those. Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:59 PM Subject: RE: Large Format vs. Digital/Stitching > NO , I do understand. Of course you can do SOME > things this way but to say it is a suitable > replacement for LF in general is really absurd.