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Re: [OM] Is 4x6 the real standard?

Subject: Re: [OM] Is 4x6 the real standard?
From: "M. Lloyd" <royer007@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:51:00 -0800 (PST)
You make a good point there. About 950f what I shoot
remains 4x6. It is the remaining 5% that I have spent
some money for quality 8x10 and larger that I shoot
OM's for. If money was no object and/or I had the time
and space to get a real darkroom I would blow up a
great deal more of my images maybe 50%. As it is I
only spend the money on those extra special photos
that dazzle me even at 4x6 size. I agree too that
superwides are crap at 4x6 but at 20x24... well you
really have to see it.

Mark Lloyd

--- AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are 4x6 prints the real standard for comparision? 
> Have we
> reduced ourselved to this point?
> 
> The average "consumer" is fat, dumb and happy with
> cheezeball
> prints from "disposables", 320x160 pixel digitals,
> Poloroid
> prints and <hack, hack> Kodak "Disk Cameras".  We're
> better than
> that, folks!  We're a special breed--we shoot OMs.
> 
> If all you are interested in is 4x6 prints, you are
> not worthy
> of the OM system.  Period.  You're a show-off, a
> techno-weenie
> or a wannabe.  Get a digital camera (anything will
> do) or
> wonderwidget camera.  Why?  Because at 4x6 or
> smaller, you will
> never see a reason to shoot film faster than ISO
> 800.  You will
> never need a super-wide-angle lens as the detail is
> so small
> you'd never make out what you photographed anyway.
> 
> The quality of the pictures from nearly any camera
> will be
> acceptable to all but the pickiest of us at 4x6. 
> Who cares
> about MC vs SC lenses or which serial number of
> 50/1.8 is
> sharpest.  It's all meaningless!  It's like getting
> all carried
> away over multi-spot exposure control with the
> OM-4Ti when you
> are just shooting Kodak MAX anyway.
> 
> We OM users need to be a special breed.  Stop
> limiting our
> "output" to the least common demoninator.  Get out
> of the rut
> and buy photo albums that take 5x7 and 8x10 sheet
> inserts.  Buy
> enlargements and hang them on your walls.  Get into
> visualizing
> the final outcome other than a small machine print
> from
> Wal-Mart.  Shoot B&W!
> 
> There's nothing like a nice 11x14 to grace the walls
> to make you
> appreciate WHY we shoot with the OM system. 
> Frankly, I don't
> like 8x10 prints--they're too small.
> 
> If you limit your "world", anything will do.  If
> you're happy
> with what you are currently getting, you are not
> expecting
> enough from yourself or your photography.
> 
> Ask yourself this question:  Are you "Zuiko-worthy?"
> 
> AG-Schnozz


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