Digital BW, The Print

Or perhaps......................?

Agreed,

John in Okc

----- Original Message -----
From: "butchhul" <butchhul@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Film cameras and negatives


| The choice of camera or film in photography for me seems little
| different from the choice any craftsman or artist makes in the
| choice of tools they use to produce their art. You use what works.
| Because of the technology inherent in the digital process, much
| is made of using machines and materials that provide the
| largest amount of information or data, giving us the maximum
| amount of  material to work with. Larger formats and drum scans
| married with ever evolving ink and printing technology seems to
| be the order of the day.
|
| Yet, how much data is enough?
|
| I love working with 35mm, especially small rangerfinders with
| wide lenses and fast films. Probably because of a journalistic
| background. There is a joy that comes with the freedom of the
| format. This bias has not kept me from amassing a room full of
| other cameras in formats ranging from 120 to 8x10, much to the
| dismay of other members of my family. Nor has it kept me from
| trying innumerable chemistries, films and processes to give
| voice to the images I brought home.
|
| Recently, I put up an exhibit of images printed from 35mm negs,
| large prints made on a 7000. After working for years with the
| "limitations" of  such a small format, I was prudent in my
| expectations.  And quite wrong.
|
| The final prints were far better than I had expected. I pushed
| them quite a bit further than I had planned, and they held up.
|
| Were they as good as I could have gotten with a larger format
| and a Howtek, probably not. But did they need to be that good?
|
| People came, looked and seemingly enjoyed. No one pulled out
| a loupe and complained that they saw this problem or that
| problem.
|
| Perhaps the discussion needs to expand, not what camera or
| film is best for the technology, but more about how the
| technology can be stretched to fit the needs of our individual
| vision.
|
| Or perhaps......................?
|
| Butch Hulett
|
|
| An afterthought: The 35mm images I talked about can be seen
| at:
| http://www.keyesgallery.com/artists/bhulett/index.shtml
| (the "Sturgis" group)
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