Re: Official: Fujifilm GFX 50S Medium Format Announced!
there is probably something always better. I\'m interested in this Fuji for sure. But I want to see how much IQ I get and how good the lenses are. The good news is I would wait until at least the 23mm is out.
I should probably just be honest with myself and say my gear is better than I am and be done with it. If I can\'t get a landscape shot with an A7rII, a good copy of an FE 16-35, Fred\'s Contax 35-70 copy, and a 70-200 f4 from any brand at this point, it\'s me, not the camera. I almost NEVER print at more than 16x20sh so. I can definitely see how for a pro it would matter or if you print REALLY big but otherwise I sometimes ask myself what Bud Fox asked GG in Wall Street \"When is enough enough?\"
Chris
Great quote from Wall Street. Knowing when enough his enough is so important and I\'m trying to be real about that right now.
Like many landscape photographers, I have chased an ideal of creating printed images that when when properly lit in a room give the viewer the experience of looking out a window and seeing and incredible sight. Easily an ideal where more and more detail can chased endlessly.
But as time moves on and I make more images, I find that those who react positively to my images are not really drawn to technically perfect images, nor endless detail. They don\'t zero in and look for technical flaws. They are impacted on an emotional level by the mood of the images, combinations of color, contrast, forms, textures. They stand back from the images and are either drawn in by those things and moved, or they are not, but I can be sure that an increase of 20% or so in image quality does\'t carry the day in my own work. It is my artistry and that can\'t be bought, only cultivated and practiced.
All that said, I cannot deny though that it is no small thing to have digital medium be more compact and less expensive, hard to ignore as much as I want to. Perhaps I\'ll just have to be determined to see if the step up in image quality is really enough get me to believe that it opens up more creative possibilities than my A7RII kit does and I\'ll have to shoot with one to figure that out and compare it to my current kit. If it is just more obsessive grasping for my own benefit...no way.
Re: Official: Fujifilm GFX 50S Medium Format Announced!
there is probably something always better. I\'m interested in this Fuji for sure. But I want to see how much IQ I get and how good the lenses are. The good news is I would wait until at least the 23mm is out.
I should probably just be honest with myself and say my gear is better than I am and be done with it. If I can\'t get a landscape shot with an A7rII, a good copy of an FE 16-35, Fred\'s Contax 35-70 copy, and a 70-200 f4 from any brand at this point, it\'s me, not the camera. I almost NEVER print at more than 16x20sh so. I can definitely see how for a pro it would matter or if you print REALLY big but otherwise I sometimes ask myself what Bud Fox asked GG in Wall Street \"When is enough enough?\"
Chris
Great quote from Wall Street. Knowing when enough his enough is so important and I\'m trying to be real about that right now.
Like many landscape photographers, I have chased an ideal of creating printed images that when when properly lit in a room give the viewer the experience of looking out a window and seeing and incredible sight. Easily an ideal where more and more detail can chased endlessly.
But as time moves on and I make more images, I find that those who react positively to my images are not really drawn to technically perfect images, nor endless detail. They don\'t zero in and look for technical flaws. They are impacted on an emotional level by the mood of the images, combinations of color, contrast, forms, textures. They stand back from the images and are either drawn in by those things and moved, or they are not, but I can be sure that an increase of 20% or so in image quality does\'t carry the day in my own work. It is my artistry and that can\'t be bought, only cultivated and practiced.
All that said, I cannot deny though that it is no small thing to have digital medium be more compact and less expensive, hard to ignore as much as I want to. Perhaps I\'ll just have to be determined to see if the step up in image quality is really enough get me to believe that it opens up more creative possibilities than my A7RII kit does and I\'ll have to shoot with one to figure that out and compare it to my current kit. If it is just more obsessive grasping for my own benefit...no way.
Oct 10, 2016 at 06:47 PM
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