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Landscapers using 35mm

Every time I see the title to this thread I think it is going to be about people wearing waterproof pants and boots and carrying a shovel and a rake and a 35mm camera!

Hardly a day goes by walking through the neighborhood when I don't see a Chevy pickup parked by someone's property, rakes and brooms in the truck bed, wooden ramps where the lawnmower was taken out, and the landscapers walking around, leafblowers strapped to their backs, while they point their SLR's at the vegetation.
 
In Palm Springs, I guess they are less likely to be wearing gumboots.
 
In the UK Eddie Ephrums used 35mm and I think a lot of Michael Kenna’s early work was as well. It’s dependent on the result you want in the final print. Smooth tonality and maximum sharpness of large format doesn’t suit every picture and is not to everyone’s taste. The character of 35mm allows you to give a picture atmosphere.
 
Landscapers around here use digital p&s. Godless heathens...
 
I have an sx-70 - can you get film for it??? Be interested in seeing those images of Yosemite.
 
I have an sx-70 - can you get film for it??? Be interested in seeing those images of Yosemite.


Sure - film available is now called "Polaroid Originals", formerly "Impossible" film:

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I'm sure Amazon, B&H, etc. have it.
 
Robert Adams' "Cottonwoods" is a mix of 35mm, medium format and 4x5.
 
Not all landscapes are about detail, many are about mood. You can create an evocative mood on any format, including the sub-miniature landscapes on the groups forum. Don't do what larger formats do better, so no subtle tonality unless you use slow films, use a tripod and print small, in which case you're sacrificing 35mm spontaneity. Go for graphic compositions. Case in point, this morning I took an Olympus XA3 and 100 ASA film out in horrendous conditions. A cliff with horizontal rain and mist. Into the deluge the sun burst through for a few minutes. J M W Turner's painting nailed the atmosphere: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/...ain-steam-and-speed-the-great-western-railway

There were huge puddles, great reflections and the heavy mist meant I could shoot into the sun without silhouetting people. I'll print the shots flat to retain the mid tones and kill contrast. Few people are going to take larger format cameras out in those conditions, and keeping on the move means taking advantage of what's around, like people running for cover against the sun.
 
Yes his books are great, have two of them
 
Yes his books are great, have two of them.
 
Ha I was just going to say that too - was just flicking through Creative Elements today and he's such a nice printer. 35mm + rodinol seems an unlikely combo for a landscape but he uses it to great effect
 
The choice of lens is based on the desired field of view and perspective. The choice of format is based on level of detail recorded and printed.