On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Aaron Reynolds wrote: > First thing I shot with my 4x5 when I got it: a pile of stuff in my > basement, to see if it worked. Second thing I shot: long exposures and > multiple pop flash images of a band performing live in a bar. Last > thing I shot before I sold it: close ups of an old Ampex tape recorder
I figure when I do trot it out, it'll be for landscapes and whatnot, where I presume its best suited for. It seems like anything else, 35mm would be just as good for my purposes. What's the biggest enlargment I should be able to pull from one of these negatives? > I found a great amount of information in The Ilford Manual of > Photography. It really helped me wrap my head around what I could do > with large format. Of course, it has been out of print for decades. I'm hoping the people over at rec.photo.equipment.large-format can be of some more assistance and inspiration, and I'll stop harping the list with OT stuff. :) -- http://www.infotainment.org "The destructive character is cheerful." - Walter Benjamin - 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 .
