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It's like Polarisandy has gone to the races.
https://petapixel.com/2017/05/13/photographer-shoots-f1-1913-graflex-4x5-view-camera/
Mehhhh, they're undoubtedly good photographs. But if you're shooting something like sport it needs to tell a story*. For example "Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas at out of turn two at the 2014 Austrian Grand Prix." is only a good photo if the race came down to a duel between those two. Otherwise it's just a photo of two cars with a DoF too shallow to make out who they are. Which is why 12fps and the capacity for 10,000's of images is useful, because you don't know what that story** is going to be until the end.
*maybe his magazine covers that better than the web article.
**people like stories, even if the truth was someone won by luck, journalist and commentators still need to spin it into a story.
thisisnotaspoon - MemberMehhhh, they're undoubtedly good photographs. But if you're shooting something like sport it needs to tell a story*. For example "Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas at out of turn two at the 2014 Austrian Grand Prix." is only a good photo if the race came down to a duel between those two. Otherwise it's just a photo of two cars with a DoF too shallow to make out who they are. Which is why 12fps and the capacity for 10,000's of images is useful, because you don't know what that story** is going to be until the end.
The camera is the story. Or rather, how the constraints of the technology will influence the images he tries to capture and how those images turn out. You could achieve the same images in post with a modern camera (or very similar) but the creative process would be completely contrived to do so.
there's a famous photo I love from about the same era as that camera, where the racing car is distorted because of its speed relative to the shutter curtain (ironically much like iPhones do these days) but I can't remember the photographer and google is proving useless. I've got it in a book at home, will dig it out.
FYI Its shot by Lartigue.
nothing to do with the type of camera or negative size but a leaf shutter and panning.
that's it thanks Mr Smith, too late to edit but this one all the same:
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Not sure what my point was but nice to see it again anyway
The photographer posted a pic on his instagram yesterday showing similar distortion but featuring a modern f1 car.
https://www.instagram.com/lollipopmagazine/