Always an out of context, response. The original post was about medium format and landscape photography.
BTW, you must have had fun focusing that rig on the ground glass. Everyone else was using a Graflex for that, but wait? Nooo... Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Munro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 12:20 AM Subject: Re: 67 or 645?? > Graywolf wrote: > "My silly thought is that once you are going to put the camera on a > tripod you might just as well go to large format and be done with it." > > That is silly, Graywolf. I remember sitting in the pressbox squashed > between the back wall and a Speed Graphic sporting a 40 inch telephoto > and two tripods. It was soooooo nice when the paper gave me a Pentax > with a 500 f/5. Whew, no more cramped kidneys and backaches! God bless > 35mm! To heck with the Graphics and film packs and flash bulbs and > shutter timing issues and surveyor tripods - silly, silly, silly stuff. >
