Feb 28, 2011, 03:08
I saw some excellent new photos at Lacock Abbey(Fox-Talbot Museum place) yesterday.
Several of the exhibited photos were of objects such as fungi/bonsai trees...taken with a scanner. The scanners used were not "high-end", yet IQ even in 24-inch prints was often on a par with others taken with DSLRs.
I don't know if this is a little creative fad along the lines of using Holgas, painting materials with photosensitive chemicals, and the like...have any of you come across this in clubs or generally...or even experimented yourselves?
As an aside, what also struck me generally, was that even at 24+-inches there was absolutely no difference in quality in images taken with APS-C kit + decent mid-range zooms and full-framers + primes. A Canon 20D image with an L-zoom was easily in the same league as many a full-frame shot taken with a prime. The only exceptions were a couple taken with Mamiya digital medium-format...yet these were so icily sharp that they lacked a certain warmth, I have to say.
Several of the exhibited photos were of objects such as fungi/bonsai trees...taken with a scanner. The scanners used were not "high-end", yet IQ even in 24-inch prints was often on a par with others taken with DSLRs.
I don't know if this is a little creative fad along the lines of using Holgas, painting materials with photosensitive chemicals, and the like...have any of you come across this in clubs or generally...or even experimented yourselves?
As an aside, what also struck me generally, was that even at 24+-inches there was absolutely no difference in quality in images taken with APS-C kit + decent mid-range zooms and full-framers + primes. A Canon 20D image with an L-zoom was easily in the same league as many a full-frame shot taken with a prime. The only exceptions were a couple taken with Mamiya digital medium-format...yet these were so icily sharp that they lacked a certain warmth, I have to say.