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"rafe bustin" wrote in message
... OK, anyone have a swag at how many 4x5" and/or 8x10" view cameras are in active service, in the USA and the rest of the "developed world?" How many square meters of dollars are you willing to spend to know the answer, Rafe? |
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rafe bustin wrote:
So what are you saying? Imaging in general down, digital down, analog down, or both? Or economy down, across the board? I notice you didn't answer my question at all. Cmon, man, take a swag... I'm saying NO ONE is going to create affordable LF digital. The only reason we have affordable LF is because we've got 100+ years of free R&D to live off. If you want LF digital tape 10 cell phones to your camera. Nick |
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On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 06:55:17 -0600, "jjs" wrote:
"rafe bustin" wrote in message .. . OK, anyone have a swag at how many 4x5" and/or 8x10" view cameras are in active service, in the USA and the rest of the "developed world?" How many square meters of dollars are you willing to spend to know the answer, Rafe? Fair question. Right now, none. Interesting how not one reply on this thread has yet to respond with the requested guess. rafe b. http://www.terrapinphoto.com |
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"rafe bustin" wrote in message
... On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 06:55:17 -0600, "jjs" wrote: How many square meters of dollars are you willing to spend to know the answer, Rafe? Fair question. Right now, none. Perhaps we can effectively narrow the scope of the question and find out how much LF film is sold by each manufacturer. That answer might satisfy the requisite since we really cannot know how much of the existing LF gear is actually used. Interesting how not one reply on this thread has yet to respond with the requested guess. Agreed. Given the number of impressionistic know-it-alls, you would think someone would post a fast figure. Okay, I will start: a bazillion LF cameras go click every day. 1000 of them are loaded with film. 50 of the films are properly exposed. 5 of them are measured under densitometers by people seekinig the Zone System magic then discarded, 2 of them make a worthwhile picture. 1 of the negatives is put in a shoebox forever. The remaining single picture is disrespected by 80% of the viewers (unless it is posted to that den of sycophants, usefilm.com.) Watch the posts pile in because it is easier to criticize nonsense than to post real information. |
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"rafe bustin" wrote in message
... On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 06:55:17 -0600, "jjs" wrote: How many square meters of dollars are you willing to spend to know the answer, Rafe? Fair question. Right now, none. Perhaps we can effectively narrow the scope of the question and find out how much LF film is sold by each manufacturer. That answer might satisfy the requisite since we really cannot know how much of the existing LF gear is actually used. Interesting how not one reply on this thread has yet to respond with the requested guess. Agreed. Given the number of impressionistic know-it-alls, you would think someone would post a fast figure. Okay, I will start: a bazillion LF cameras go click every day. 1000 of them are loaded with film. 50 of the films are properly exposed. 5 of them are measured under densitometers by people seekinig the Zone System magic then discarded, 2 of them make a worthwhile picture. 1 of the negatives is put in a shoebox forever. The remaining single picture is disrespected by 80% of the viewers (unless it is posted to that den of sycophants, usefilm.com.) Watch the posts pile in because it is easier to criticize nonsense than to post real information. |
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Better yet, cites?
I mean, what new and exciting products await us in the LF world? Me, I'd like to see good affordable scanners and scanning backs. rafe b. http://www.terrapinphoto.com The new Linhof is nice. And coupled with a multi-shot Imacon back it is pretty much up there in the 8x10 chrome realm. And, cost wise - is about as much as an 8x10 was 25 years ago. |
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Better yet, cites?
I mean, what new and exciting products await us in the LF world? Me, I'd like to see good affordable scanners and scanning backs. rafe b. http://www.terrapinphoto.com The new Linhof is nice. And coupled with a multi-shot Imacon back it is pretty much up there in the 8x10 chrome realm. And, cost wise - is about as much as an 8x10 was 25 years ago. |
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On 4/1/2005 6:00 AM Nick Zentena spake thus:
... If you want LF digital tape 10 cell phones to your camera. Now *there's* an idea. Think someone might come up with a Photoshop plugin to handle stitching the little teeny-tiny images together? I can see it now: "Panoramic Pictures with your Nokia". -- "I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon." - Former President Gerald Ford to his golf partners, as related by the late Hunter S. Thompson |
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In article ,
rafe bustin wrote: I take it the proper answer is, oh, maybe a few dozen? I had thirty people on my LF group just in Maryland, before discontinuing it, the main problem I wasn't available on Saturdays. -- LF Website @ http://members.verizon.net/~gregoryblank "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918 |
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In article ,
rafe bustin wrote: Fair question. Right now, none. Interesting how not one reply on this thread has yet to respond with the requested guess. I would say somewhere above 1,500. -- LF Website @ http://members.verizon.net/~gregoryblank "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918 |
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