Press Photography and Large Format

Largformat wrote:
: The most positive contribution I can make to this conversation is to invite
: you to leave it. Please do so.

: I wonder if "empty pontification" qualifies one to post in the vaunted View
: Camera magazine forum...? hmmm...

: John Emmons

: I will continue to make posts when they are related to the topic at hand.

As you should.
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Largformat wrote:
: The most positive contribution I can make to this conversation is to invite
: you to leave it. Please do so.

: I wonder if "empty pontification" qualifies one to post in the vaunted View
: Camera magazine forum...? hmmm...

: John Emmons

: I will continue to make posts when they are related to the topic at hand.

As you should.
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John Emmons wrote:

: "CamArtsMag" wrote in message
: All this naysaying is empty pontificating
:
: steve simmons

: You'd be the one to know about that Mr. Simmons.

: Now go sell some more magazines.

You're way off base on this one. At no time in this thread has there been
any attempt to "sell some more magazines". Like it or not this is a
public newsgroup where eveyone including yourself can post.


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John Emmons wrote:

: "CamArtsMag" wrote in message
: All this naysaying is empty pontificating
:
: steve simmons

: You'd be the one to know about that Mr. Simmons.

: Now go sell some more magazines.

You're way off base on this one. At no time in this thread has there been
any attempt to "sell some more magazines". Like it or not this is a
public newsgroup where eveyone including yourself can post.


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"Frank Pittel" wrote in message
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jjs wrote:
: "Frank Pittel" wrote in message
: ...

: I saw a photographer with a 4x5 camera at a football game once.

: In Chicago, early Seventies? That was me. On my last football game
: assignment.

It was in Chicago around the turn of the century. Sorry! :-)

I didn't say _which_ century. Gawd, now everybody knows how old I am.

"Frank Pittel" wrote in message
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jjs wrote:
: "Frank Pittel" wrote in message
: ...

: I saw a photographer with a 4x5 camera at a football game once.

: In Chicago, early Seventies? That was me. On my last football game
: assignment.

It was in Chicago around the turn of the century. Sorry! :-)

I didn't say _which_ century. Gawd, now everybody knows how old I am.

Bah, humbug, all that stuff is easy compared to Louis Boutan's 1892
underwater Large Format camera (not a tiny 4x5" either ;-) used to shoot
the first photographs underwater. And how about his nifty exploding
underwater flash bulbs of 1899? ;p-) The whole setup was bigger than some
dorm refrigerators ;-0) Even a mere MF SLR like my bronica s2a is bigger
than most of your 4x5" cameras, see http://medfmt.8k.com/bronuw.html

grins bobm

see
http://www.therebreathersite.nl/Zuur...uis_boutan.htm

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jjs wrote:
: "Frank Pittel" wrote in message
: ...
: jjs wrote:
: : "Frank Pittel" wrote in message
: : ...
:
: : I saw a photographer with a 4x5 camera at a football game once.
:
: : In Chicago, early Seventies? That was me. On my last football game
: : assignment.
:
: It was in Chicago around the turn of the century. Sorry! :-)

: I didn't say _which_ century. Gawd, now everybody knows how old I am.


Now how old are you saying I am!! :-)
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jjs wrote:
: "Frank Pittel" wrote in message
: ...
: jjs wrote:
: : "Frank Pittel" wrote in message
: : ...
:
: : I saw a photographer with a 4x5 camera at a football game once.
:
: : In Chicago, early Seventies? That was me. On my last football game
: : assignment.
:
: It was in Chicago around the turn of the century. Sorry! :-)

: I didn't say _which_ century. Gawd, now everybody knows how old I am.


Now how old are you saying I am!! :-)
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jjs wrote:

"Gordon Moat" wrote in message
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[...]
I don't see why people would think it was difficult. Jacques Henri
Lartigue was
doing action shots quite a long time ago.

I wish I had the money to experiment like he did.

You mean for all the film? I think the camera he used was not that
complicated. It would be fun to go to a vintage car meet, the Mille
Miglia, or even a bicycle race, and try some images. Even just getting a
few frames could show some really cool images. So why not try something?

Ciao!

Gordon Moat
A G Studio
http://www.allgstudio.com/gallery.html Updated!