----- Original Message ----- From: "Shel Belinkoff" Subject: Re: Am I Really a Dinosaur?
> Sure, a bigger neg will yield higher quality, but at the cost of > flexibility, portability, convenience, stealth, and so on. Those of you > who shoot pretty flowers and landscapes, and subjects that don't move, > can easily use and benefit from a larger format. However, for much of > what Juan does, and what I do, the 35mm format is just about ideal. > There are few, if any, medium format cameras that will allow the kind of > shooting I'm describing. Yes but Shel, all you need is for one to do it as well, or even nearly as well, as a small format camera. A camera like a Hasselblad 501CM, used at waist level would be quite inconspicuous. My friend with the Hasselblad travels frequenty to Greece, where he does wonderful street photography. The Plaubel 6x7 http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/plaubel.htm is remarkably small, though apparently not as reliable as it could be. The Mamiya 6 and 7 are both very compact also. Consider also, I could walk into a crowd with a small Leica, and stand out like a sore thumb, because that kind of photography is not what I do well. I think most of it is the photographer and how he works, much more so than the equipment. I bet you could do what you do with a Mamiya 7, almost all the time. (I am trying to enable you, BTW) William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
