Digital BW, The Print

And this has WHAT to do with the now drifted OT subject of matting  
prints? Come on folks, lets either end this one or start a new thread,  
please.

Hello moderator....help.


Mark
http://www.stillrivereditions.com

On Jul 19, 2008, at 4:21 PM, dlruckus wrote:

> HI. Not to be picky either but perspective is a function of position,
> not of lens focal length.
>
> Regards
> Duane
>
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pglombick"
> <glombick@...> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>