{"id":614,"date":"2007-09-18T20:42:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T01:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/2007\/09\/18\/147365\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T20:42:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T01:42:27","slug":"147365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/147365\/","title":{"rendered":"147\/365"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/pic091807alarge.jpg' title='pic091807a.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/pic091807a.jpg' alt='pic091807a.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My well-used 4&#215;5 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camerapedia.org\/wiki\/Graflex_Speed_Graphic\">Crown Graphic<\/a>. I think I paid $125 for the body and $75 for the lens. Cheap though the outfit is, it is capable of superb results. For sheer quality, nothing beats large format:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenrockwell.com\/tech\/4x5.htm\">An old $200 Crown Graphic will completely eclipse any Nikon, Hasselblad or Leica camera for technical quality because of the huge film size and movements.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For some kinds of photography, this is absolutely true, and if I were primarily a landscape  photographer, my principal tool would be the Graphic or perhaps a 4&#215;5 field camera with more movements. The large negative also makes contact-printing processes such as cyanotypes possible. The downside is that large format photography is slow in every way. If you want to catch dancers in mid-air during rehearsal, you need fast film in a quick-focusing camera with a fast lens (or a digital SLR that performs well at high ISOs), and you need to take a lot of pictures quickly. Even so, I have taken good studio shots of dancers with the Crown Graphic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My well-used 4&#215;5 Crown Graphic. I think I paid $125 for the body and $75 for the lens. Cheap though the outfit is, it is capable of superb results. For sheer quality, nothing beats large format: An old $200 Crown Graphic will completely eclipse any Nikon, Hasselblad or Leica camera for technical quality because of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/147365\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;147\/365&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4xam3-147365","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}