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Forum: Pentax Full Frame
03-15-2016, 07:12 PM
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I used film cameras for over forty years, nearly always loading slide film into my camera. During that time I printed a total of two pictures larger than 4" x 6". In 1968, as a college junior, I had a shop make eight 8" x 10" black and white prints from one Instamatic negative; I was running for re-election as a member of the Student Senate, and these pictures of me on the Senate floor went on posters that I knew would be hung 8' off the floor in dining halls. In 1973, as a grad student, six female friends of mine asked me to take a picture of them in "sexy" hitchhiking mode; I had a place that heavily advertised on campus make a poster from the resulting slide and I don't recall anyone admiring the poster from a distance of less than three feet, because if you got any closer than that, you lost the overall effect.
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The difference in generations is vital. I have told the following story several times already, but it bears repeating in this context. Last December, my wife and I attended a Madrigal Dinner at the college where she works. Unfortunately, we were a tad slow in reserving tickets, so our seats were in the second row. Not wanting to lug my K-30 with me, I took my tiny-sensor Q-7 instead. On the way out, I encountered a lady who had been sitting almost directly in front of me {so I was basically shooting around her all evening}, and asked her why she had used flash most of the evening, pointing out that flash washed out the warm "candle light" shades the crew had worked hard to achieve. She showed me the pictures from her five-year-old Nikon DSLR, and it clearly wasn't quite up to the task. When I showed her a picture from my Q-7, she immediately asked me to email some to her {the picture I had randomly chosen happened to be of her daughter's solo}. I would never claim equality between a current Nikon DSLR and a current Pentax Q-7, but those few years made an enormous difference in the camera's ability to deal with relatively dimly-lit scenes.
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