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Re: [Digital BW] OT...New Canon 10D! !!

2003-02-26 by dsmithhfx <dsmithhfx@yahoo.com>

I think you guys are all losing sight of something.

I took one of my best photographs of the past year using a 3MP Nikon 
885. I wish it had better resolution, so I could make big prints from 
it. But it doesn't, so I will make small ones. 

Before I got into digital I would occasionally spend time and care 
composing a photo with my 35mm SLR on a tripod, and on subjects, 
which arguably might have been better spent with a view camera. But I 
didn't have one, so I used the SLR. Some of those photos turned out 
really well. 

I have also taken photos that you could only take with a small, 
lightweight handheld camera with necessarily limited size film 
format. I have often wished they were in a larger format, e.g. 120. 
But they aren't. Those are the negatives I have to work with. I 
believe it is possible to extract good prints from the good photos, 
even from ones that are technically not so good (and I find many 
interesting qualities in some 'off' negatives, that contribute to 
a 'good' photograph).

I humbly suggest you look beyond this rather silly debate...

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