5:00 PM
It's a light machine
A RAW file is, quite literally, nothing.
A RAW file is, quite literally, nothing.
What I mean is that unlike a negative, a RAW file has no direct relationship to the final image/output. It's not a "digital negative." If it is something, it's something far less than a negative.
A RAW file is, quite literally, nothing.
This was Frame #40. Looks like HCB's was #39? Late roll keepers 🙂
(Website link) "...The world's most famous negative. Korda used a Leica M2 with a 90 mm lens and Kodak Plus-X film. The famous image was captured on frame number 40."
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Joe Rosenthal
Flag raising on Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945
Speed Graphic
4x5 negative
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That HCB negative looks even sub normal, but I'm sure I'm wrong.
Interesting image -- maybe it's illustrating my ignorance, but I find it interesting that this 4x5 negative is rectangular, rather than the roughly "T-shape" produced by modern film holders -- when did that change happen, and how was the film held flat in those old holders?
^ It doesn't have the typical film holder masking around the edges. Maybe it is a dupe of some kind, but the envelope says, "Original".
From what I have read many of HCB's negatives are a nightmare to print. It sounds like the exposure was sometimes off by a few stops. There was an exhibit a few years back at the Getty and they had a few of his prints. I was surprised to see how technically mediocre many where. A lot of them looked 'chalky', like the printer had tostruggled with an over/under exposed negative. Many were also slightly out of focus. 🙂
I see. I think the article mentioned that it was his own personal safety neg.
Let me try to see if I can find that again.
Well, at least I'm not the only one that thinks that his negatives may be lacking.
Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, Calif. Mar. 1936
Graflex RB (?)
4x5 negative
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I find it comforting that someone with his genius and experience still had trouble keeping exposure and focus perfect while pursuing candid shots!
Randy
+1 !A RAW file is, quite literally, nothing.