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Mitch Alland
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Sean, Walt:
I think that these small-sensor cameras are a new format, characterized, as Sean says, by a tiny sensor, huge DOF because of the short focal length of the lenses, graininess, minuscule size of the camera (which affects handling characteristics in both "good" and "bad" ways), etc. Indeed, the differences from APS and 4/3rds sensor cameras — and from 35mm film cameras — is enormous. To me, the fact this is a new format is an exciting thought: here is a camera format that is as revolutionary as the 35mm format was when the first Leicas were introduced in the 1920s and started to be used extensively in the 1930s.
In my case, I find that this new format has loosened up my photography because of the handling characteristics of these cameras: my style, framing with the LCD rather than a viewfinder, has become more much more fluid.
If we agree that this is a new format, there is still the question as to which of the digital formats is more film-like, but here we have to be specific as to which film format we mean. My original point was that the GRD was more like the "35mm aesthetic", typified by the Leica-M and Tri-X-like films, than the M8, which is more like medium format film.
—Mitch/Bangkok
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/
I think that these small-sensor cameras are a new format, characterized, as Sean says, by a tiny sensor, huge DOF because of the short focal length of the lenses, graininess, minuscule size of the camera (which affects handling characteristics in both "good" and "bad" ways), etc. Indeed, the differences from APS and 4/3rds sensor cameras — and from 35mm film cameras — is enormous. To me, the fact this is a new format is an exciting thought: here is a camera format that is as revolutionary as the 35mm format was when the first Leicas were introduced in the 1920s and started to be used extensively in the 1930s.
In my case, I find that this new format has loosened up my photography because of the handling characteristics of these cameras: my style, framing with the LCD rather than a viewfinder, has become more much more fluid.
If we agree that this is a new format, there is still the question as to which of the digital formats is more film-like, but here we have to be specific as to which film format we mean. My original point was that the GRD was more like the "35mm aesthetic", typified by the Leica-M and Tri-X-like films, than the M8, which is more like medium format film.
—Mitch/Bangkok
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/
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