I love shooting 8x10, and even in a 16X20 or 20X24 print I can tell the difference from a 4x5 enlargement, but doubt the public can. The 8x10 version might have an almost contact-print look, and subtly more accurate hues, if I've pulled out all the stops printing it at optimal quality (optically, of course, using top-end process lenses).
But it's more a matter of how an 8x10 slows you down even a little more, that is, in a positive sense, contemplatively. I'm a format schizophrenic anyway, and bounce back and forth between cameras and film sizes, including a lot of 120 roll film work.
Keith is a great resource to have around.
Digital is 0.00003 of the cost of film
The mere ease of doing things that way promotes reckless machine-gunning that often never does hit the bullseye
Sounds like a good investment. Good luck on your project. Tell us more about it?
Hugo as in the science fiction award (named for Hugo Gernsbach, the publisher who pretty much created modern science fiction)? Nice!
Every time I think about the cost of film, I price a gfx100… in ten years when I shoot through enough film to have covered the cost of the gfx, it’ll be as technically useful as a paperweight. Just my thoughts.
Why? As long as you have a battery and a memory card, the GFX100 will give you the same quality images as it does today. Just like your 4x5.
When I’m out shooting with my 5DSR (a camera that still produces incredible images and I love it), I’m constantly met with comments about how I should get rid of it and go mirrorless.
Why? As long as you have a battery and a memory card, the GFX100 will give you the same quality images as it does today. Just like your 4x5.
I have to say, every time I buy 4x5 film I mumble curse for a few hours about the manufacturers constantly jacking up the price. But then, every time I pull the film out of the Jobo I say a quiet prayer that they never stop manufacturing it. It’s expensive. It’s stupid expensive. But man, there’s just no better feeling that seeing that giant negative/positive come out of the tank. It brings me back to when I was a kid and would open a pack of baseball cards. Every time I think about the cost of film, I price a gfx100… in ten years when I shoot through enough film to have covered the cost of the gfx, it’ll be as technically useful as a paperweight. Just my thoughts.
My only contribution to the topic is that I don't as I am not a LF shooter. Before the price increases I wanted to try LF but my style primes mobility […]
I more meant from the perspective of the technology vs what’s on the market.
I used to shoot 8x10 Provia and make contact prints on Cibachrome. (as well as enlargements of course) I haven't bothered for years now, I think I just concluded at some point that while technically pretty, very little of I was producing was artistically worth the always increasing expense. So now I take my junk photos on 35mm and 120 and scan directly.
The most brutally honest reply I've seen in a while.
Yup. And I can get behind it, too.
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