Digital BW, The Print

> 
> Myself, my thinking evolved over the years to the point of seeing the 
> negative as just a step in arriving at a finished image. In fact, 
> when using 4x5 I often would crop an image to achieve a framing 
> and/or depth compression that I couldn't achieve in the field 
> (landscape photography). In other words by shooting 4x5 with a 240mm 
> lens and then cropping to 2x2-1/2 I could achieve the depth 
> compression of a 480 mm lens. 
> 

I don't mean to be picky, by say you used a 48mm lens (if such a thing 
existed) and cropped the negative to 50% o the original, it would not 
have the "depth compression", or in other words, perspective, of a 24mm 
lens.