Depth of field is magnification related. Magnification on a 4X5 camera tends to be far greater than a 20D. so it will tend to have far less DOF. Also the Graflex has limited tilts and swings which can blow an area out of focus. What a wonderful machine that was. And if you scan a 4X5 tranny at 5000 DPI on a drum scanner, you get an image 20 000 X 25 000 pixels.... 500 megapixel images!! and beatiful from edge to edge.
Digital and film work wonderfully together.
Herschel
Veli Izzet Cigirgan <izzet@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Veli Izzet Cigirgan <izzet@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
The author is talking about depth of field here.
He thinks the shallow depth of field that makes the image more pleasant is a
function of analog vs. digital; he of course does not know the lenses used,
has no idea of lens speed, etc.
Comparing apples to watermelons..
Veli Izzet
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> karl shah-jenner
> Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 11:12 AM
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> Subject: Re: digital future - was something else.
>
> out of the blue, someone who has no connection with this
> group just sent me a link to this:
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/technology/circuits/08schiesel.html?ex=127
5883200&
>
> :-)
>
> "On the screen was a ..picture of a John Kerry rally ..which
> Mr. Burnett shot with a Canon 20D digital camera, the same
> camera used by thousands of other professionals around the
> world. Not surprisingly, the picture looks like thousands of
> others that were shipped around the globe during the campaign.
>
> The colors are bright. Every part of the image is crisp, so
> crisp that just picking the minuscule figure of Mr. Kerry out
> of the huge crowd takes a "Where's Waldo?" moment.
>
> And then Mr. Burnett flipped to a photograph taken seconds
> later with the ancient Speed Graphic. Suddenly, the image
> took on a luminescent depth. The center of the image, with
> Mr. Kerry, was clear. Yet soon the crowd along the edges
> began to float into softer focus on translucent planes of color.
>
> The effect is to direct the viewer's eye to Mr. Kerry while
> also conveying the scale and intensity of the crowd. In
> accomplishing both at the same time, the old-fashioned
> photograph communicates a rich sense of meaning that the
> digital file does not."
>
>
>
> k
>
>
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Herschel Mair
Head of the Department of Photography,
Head of the Department of Photography,
Higher College of Technology
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Sultanate of Oman
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