ANNI GETS LUMINOUS !!!
Annika1980
First off, I received Issue #10 of The Luminous Landscape Video Journal on DVD
today. For those of you living in a cave, this is Michael Reichmann's
excellent video production covering all aspects of photography. You can read
all about it here:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/
Also, I just got an e-mail from Mr. Reichmann telling me I am the first
Semi-Finalist for the big 8 MP camera Drawing.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/video_journal/win.shtml
Should I be lucky enough to be the grand prize winner (why not? I'm due!),
I'll get to choose between 5 of the new 8 MP models from Canon, Minolta, Nikon,
Olympus, and Sony. Gee, I wonder which one I'd choose?
Now back to the DVD. I just sat mesmerized watching a segment with Michael and
Stephen Johnson, a landscape photographer who uses the Betterlight scanning
back on a 4x5 camera to make super high-res large format images that film
simply can't touch. As Mr. Johnson correctly points out, digital's superiority
in this format is "inarguable." So don't even bother.
Mr. Johnson also has a setup to make panoramic images up to 6000 pixels high by
up to 65000 pixels wide .... without stitching! The camera rests on a
computerized mount and the camera itself turns while the image is being
captured. The whole scanning process takes just over a minute so the format
doesn't lend itself to any type of photography involving movement. But for
landscapes or still life you can't beat it. All color corrections, white
balance adjustments, histogram tweaking, etc. are done at capture so there is
no need for post-processing other than printing. Cool, huh?
In an ironic way, the digital Betterlight system may actually bring the
photographer closer to photography's essence ... the faithful capture of a
moment in time. Who needs film, anyway? Brother can ya spare about $50K?
Anyone interested in the current limits of photography should plunk down the
$14.95 for this DVD. It will not only change your perspective, it could just
be a life-changing experience for you as well.
Mark M
"Annika1980" <annik...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone interested in the current limits of photography should plunk down
the
> $14.95 for this DVD. It will not only change your perspective, it could
just
> be a life-changing experience for you as well.
Oh my!
If THAT's not brown-nosing the judge of the contest for better odds, I don't
know what is!!
Plugging the judge's own product... Now THERE'S a winning strategy if ever
I saw one...
(Oops...he might be reading this...)
Bart van der Wolf
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SNIP
> Oh my!
> If THAT's not brown-nosing the judge of the contest for better
> odds, I don't know what is!!
> Plugging the judge's own product... Now THERE'S a winning
> strategy if ever I saw one...
As long as nobody is hurt in the process, it's the result that counts ;-)
Bart
Tzortzakakis Dimitrios
possibly noticed, if you can read, is the title of this newgroup).So, what
have "megapixels" and DVDs have in common with 35 mm?Except, if you claim,
the film will become extinct, and EVERYONE will have digitals.(I'd rather
give up photography for ever than surrender).
--
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Analogue technology rules-digital sucks
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Alan Browne
> Anyone interested in the current limits of photography should plunk down the
> $14.95 for this DVD. It will not only change your perspective, it could just
> be a life-changing experience for you as well.
Just keep the sumaries coming Bret.
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than a little influencable.
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>
Annika1980
>Oh my!
>If THAT's not brown-nosing the judge of the contest for better odds, I don't
>know what is!!
>Plugging the judge's own product... Now THERE'S a winning strategy if ever
>I saw one...
>
The record will show that I've been a big fan of Michael's website for years
(did ya hear that, Mikey?) so it isn't like I'm just shining him up to win a
$1000 cammy or anything.
But now that I'm one of the semi-finalists, I encourage everyone to go and
enter the contest and try to be the other semi-finalist (I assume there are
just two of them, although Michael's from Canada and they count funny up
there). Anyway, if your name is picked as the other semi-finalist, you're
almost sure to win cause I never win nothin. And if you read the fine print on
the website, you'll see that you don't have to buy anything to win. Just took
an e-mail to get me entered.
So who will challenge me in the finals?
Do you feel lucky, punk?
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/video_journal/win.shtml
Mark M
:0)
Down boy!
Annika1980
>> So who will challenge me in the finals?
>> Do you feel lucky, punk?
>
>:0)
>Down boy!
Wouldn't it be cool if Preddy was the other finalist? The 8MP digital would be
a serious upgrade for him. For me, it would just be backup. "Gravy," you
might say.
I've been researching the five 8MP cammies that the winner gets to choose from.
Reichmann is always called a shill for Canon, but from what I read on his
website it looks like he prefers the Minolta.
Shocking!
I'll take the 1D MK II, please.
Matt Clara
> Well sports fans, today was my lucky day!
>
> First off, I received Issue #10 of The Luminous Landscape Video Journal on
DVD
> today. For those of you living in a cave, this is Michael Reichmann's
> excellent video production covering all aspects of photography. You can
read
> all about it here:
> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/
>
> Also, I just got an e-mail from Mr. Reichmann telling me I am the first
> Semi-Finalist for the big 8 MP camera Drawing.
> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/video_journal/win.shtml
>
Who RULES?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/06/01/high.resolution.camera.ap/index.html
--
Regards,
Matt Clara
www.mattclara.com
(film does)
Annika1980
>Who RULES?
>http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/06/01/high.resolution.camera.ap/index.html
Sadly, that camera uses film and is thus handcuffed by film's limitations. I'd
rather have one of those Betterlight scanning backs.
Martin Francis
> Reichmann is always called a shill for Canon,
The cad!
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no, and yes...."
Martin Francis
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> Who RULES?
>
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/06/01/high.resolution.camera.ap/index.html
not the author of the article, who clearly knows bugger all about cameras.
And if only Clifford had built an enlarger with a vacuum pump system and a
big carrier, he'd have had a 7 1/2 x 15 foot print...
Matt Clara
Which has greater resolution, the camera to which you refer, or this camera?
My money's on the film camera.
Roger Halstead
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>> Who RULES?
>>
>http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/06/01/high.resolution.camera.ap/index.html
>
>not the author of the article, who clearly knows bugger all about cameras.
>
>And if only Clifford had built an enlarger with a vacuum pump system and a
>big carrier, he'd have had a 7 1/2 x 15 foot print...
That's quite a shoe
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
Tony Spadaro
I would say Reichmann is a shill for whomsoever he can be.
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Michael Scarpitti
> Well sports fans, today was my lucky day!
>
> First off, I received Issue #10 of The Luminous Landscape Video Journal on DVD
> today. For those of you living in a cave, this is Michael Reichmann's
> excellent video production covering all aspects of photography. You can read
> all about it here:
> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/
That guy Michael Reichmann is a total moron.
Tony Spadaro
--
http://www.chapelhillnoir.com
home of The Camera-ist's Manifesto
The Improved Links Pages are at
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A sample chapter from my novel "Haight-Ashbury" is at
http://www.chapelhillnoir.com/writ/hait/hatitl.html
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> "Tony Spadaro" <tspa...@ncmaps.rr.com> wrote:
>
> >After reading his review of the rather pathetic Polaroid 4000 film
scanner,
>
> Out of curiosity, why is the Polaroid 4000 film scanner pathetic?
>
> --
> Eric
> http://canid.com/
>