Digital BW, The Print

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Hi Austin-

Thanks for all the info. I have struggled with many of these same 
issues back in the days of film- not from a technical viewpoint, 
which seems to be your strength, but from an intuitive one. Back 
when I shot film, (which I have done since 1967) I would look at 
Bresson's and Winogrands, and other 35mm shooters and then I looked 
at 4x5 shooters, and then I looked at 8x10's etc. One could keep 
going on, but at some point we have to just make pictures... it only 
has to make sense to me from an artistic point of view, ie, a grainy 
out of focus blurred Cartier-Bresson is far superior to ??? in other 
words, the sharpness or detail or any other technical aspect finally 
has to relent to the subjective artistic stuff. (Or does it?)

The same goes for digital. I wanted effective photographs, at 
whatever res or detail, and this kodak back certainly produces them. 
I was never able to "see" effectively with a view camera. Despite 
many attempts through the years, both professionally and for 
personal work, I could never feel comfortable with 4x5 or 8x10's. 
This digital camera is relatively fast and easy to use, and gives me 
images that are artistically successful. 

So what is next for the digital world? I would love to find a 
digital back that was truly high resolution and 'detailed'perhaps a 
cluster of these chips that I have now, maybe a 1x3 array to make a 
panorama...but until then, I'll keep making images, with whatever 
camera I have...I remember one of my most successful projects was 
shot with the plastic Holga. 

What kind of work do you do? And what format?

Thanks,

Chris