Beautiful pictures. I always wonder why old pictures have often better resolution than the new ones.
Jaga
Just from experience, think not a whit of the resolution obtained by the old photographs. The processes, equipment available to them was more or less experimental until better processes were to come.
Remember always {The Craftsman, never blames his tools}.
Leslie is correct with his experience and preferences. It is just my reluctance to create work out of pleasure, or for that matter, risk loss of field evidence with a loused up photo.
It is true, better equipment, results in better quality.
In past, I was provided as the occasion would call for, a Leica. Very excellent, and costly, one slip into some swamp water, and good bye, and hello to a very nasty amount of reports to justify the loss.
In past, until fairly recently, I have owned a Rolleiflex SL35 for many years. It was designed with a Focal Plane Shutter system with a Carl Zeiss lens. It excelled in every job called upon to accomplish.
But, now, I have used for some time, a relatively in-expensive HP parallax view digital camera. It is only a 2.11 mege-pixel unit, with a pentex zoom lens of 5.2 mm-16.5 mm.
Very weak,inexpensive, and very handy. The key to weak equipment, is to ignore the weakness, and concentrate on the good points.
For example: poor resolution
Fix: remove and toss factory collection chip/replace with high end chip.
Poor resolution: Fix--internal adjustment as of a computer, up collection to fine. Less photos-best quality.
With the high end chip replacement using common SanDisk chip of 32 from original of 16. Even with the high setting of fine exposure setting. The total retention exposure count is 64.
As this is a unit with a body view finder, there is parallax in very very close up use. Not a problem, for the back is a full through the lens look through.
Photography is no mystery, it is though, a very high need for prospective and rendition, with a knowledge of light. For with all the most best equipment, it is still through the use of light, we obtain our photographs.
With the digital, is a direct connection to the computer,and with the computer, the opportunity to perfect our work. With this, the versatility of:e-mail our work, print it, view it on the tele, easy editing.
Be versatile, if your camera will not properly adjust to extreme distance, then any magnifying source will work. What ever you eye will see, how ever your mind will conceive, your camera will record that image.
For instance, the sun is overly bright, place your sun glasses over the lens. You wish to soften the glare of subject matter, a piece of gauze or bug screen placed or held over the lens, will do the trick, in place of lost or unavailable lens filter. The distance is overly great, then hold or tape your camera using the binocular as your magnification tool.
The above I have used as the occasion called for with very excellent result. Just a matter of using good imagination with function as events unfold.
In short, I do not miss the film camera.
Charles
