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Digital lacks soul
This is a wet film thread. Move along; nothing to see here.
I have a Balda folding camera that must date from the mid-40s or earlier. My Father in Law liberated it from a Japanese soldier somewhere in East Asia during WW2. (at the point of a gun, but that was normal for the time) It takes vertical 6x4.5 on 12- roll film. It does it with style and with accuracy. I have used it with a hand-held meter and rangefinder to deliver cracking portraits and landscapes. Isn't it remarkable what even simple kit will do, providing the negative is large enough? Eat my dust, digital. And for bonus points: what was a German camera doing in East Asia in the hands of a Japanese soldier during WW2? If I could only bottle the smell of the leather case, I would be a rich man. -- ---------------------------- Paul Friday |
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Digital lacks soul
Paul Friday wrote:
This is a wet film thread. Move along; nothing to see here. Digital lacks detail, certainly, and I seriously doubt it will show anything like the persistance and long-term viewability of film. Nifty camera ya got there, BTW. There was actually quite a lot of back & forth between Germany & Japan through the war, via submarine, and a camera or so could be easily be brought back from a visit to the Atlantic. |
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Digital lacks soul
Paul Friday wrote:
This is a wet film thread. Move along; nothing to see here. Digital lacks detail, certainly, and I seriously doubt it will show anything like the persistance and long-term viewability of film. Nifty camera ya got there, BTW. There was actually quite a lot of back & forth between Germany & Japan through the war, via submarine, and a camera or so could be easily be brought back from a visit to the Atlantic. |
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