I used to shoot negative in the pass, even my Bronica 6x4.5 neg. were
printed to 3R only. In these few years I mainly shoot slides and my
wife complain she has no print to see. Now I do both, company parties
and family shoots use negative, print at 4R size, others use slide,
travel with family use both.
I'm also going to scan all my negatives and slides, the good slides
will be output to 4R prints. It makes a much easier way to enjoy the
slide than using loupe or projection. In my life I only have two
16x20, although there are many 8x12 but they are all free prints by
machine most of them cannot represent the "real" thing. I will try
some larger digital output later, based on the good experience on 4R
print I expected the result will be close or even better than custom
print. Even then I will still have 980f works in 4R prints, I don't
have that many walls to hang the larger prints.
C.H.Ling
Clemente Colayco wrote:
>
> I feel so dumb having to admit that I usually print at 4 x 6, used to make
> do with 3 x 5.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "AG Schnozz" <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:32 AM
> Subject: [OM] Is 4x6 the real standard?
>
> > Are 4x6 prints the real standard for comparision? Have we
> > reduced ourselved to this point?
> >
> > The average "consumer" is fat, dumb and happy with cheezeball
> > prints from "disposables", 320x160 pixel digitals, Poloroid
> > prints and <hack, hack> Kodak "Disk Cameras". We're better than
> > that, folks! We're a special breed--we shoot OMs.
> >
> > If all you are interested in is 4x6 prints, you are not worthy
> > of the OM system. Period. You're a show-off, a techno-weenie
> > or a wannabe. Get a digital camera (anything will do) or
> > wonderwidget camera. Why? Because at 4x6 or smaller, you will
> > never see a reason to shoot film faster than ISO 800. You will
> > never need a super-wide-angle lens as the detail is so small
> > you'd never make out what you photographed anyway.
> >
<snap>
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