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Written by Patrick Jan Van Hove
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Friday, 21 January 2005 |
It's a strange thing that almost all photography is presented on the web. Even the best screens don't have the same range of color and brightness rendition that a simple photographic print has, and don't get me started on resolution !
For LF and ULF work it's even worse, because the subtelties that make the medium so rich and interesting are not digitizable, there is no way, even with one of those 30" apple displays, that I can show you what a 16x20" print from a LF negative (even from a 35mm negative !) looks like unless you see it in person...
It's a curse for LF shooters who'd like to get more people interested, because since most photography in presented on the net, and that it's impossible to tell on a screen which image is from a digital camera and which is from an 8x10 camera, people are impressed that the digicam is as good as the LF gear, and go digital...
Anyhow, I don't have a decent neg scanner at the moment, so I can't really present my Polaroid 55 images unless I scan the polaroid print, which usually is far from the quality obtainable from the neg... I'll try to get something rigged so I can get images to post from my 4x5 negatives, since I don't have a darkroom at the moment. The next image of the PAW will be a type 55 polaroid negative...
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Last Updated ( Monday, 28 November 2005 )
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