[filmscanners] RE: shoot first, fix it later

["Les Berkley" <wogears@fast.net>]

Hello!

4x5 and larger are used for many reasons. First and foremost are the
camera adjustments and perspective corrections available with a good
monorail camera. Second is the quality available from LF negs and
chromes. There is a kind of synergy between lens and film that occurs
with larger sizes. This is replicated in a way by the output from a good
scanning back.

Les

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of Karl
Schulmeisters
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 1:27 PM
> To: wogears@fast.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: shoot first, fix it later
>
> I believe most architectural is still shot 4x5 - or 8x10
> 1) in part because until recently, film wasn't good enough to capture
the
> details otherwise and so its 'how it always has been done'.
> 2) if you 'polaroid' the shot, its WYSIWYG
> 3) lenses have much greater coverage - a 90mm 4x5 lens is roughly
> equivilent
> to a 25mm lens for 35mm camera and a 60mm is a 15mm
> 4) larger film area gives you more latitude in lighting
>
> Its true that 4x5 scanners ain't cheap - but that's what service
bueroes
> are
> for (damn I can't spell that word).

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