taking out my 4x5 camera - anyone know of an index of Sept. 11th memorials?

[mattkime]

I'm dragging out my 4x5 camera which simply hasn't gotten enough use. In the past I've simply wandered and taking pics but I'd like to have a particular subject this time around. I thought I'd try photographing some sept 11th memorials. I know of a few locally - but how to find more? They're all over the place but I don't think there is any central listing. I bet every firehouse has its own little memorial.

Buying supplies made me realize what the loss of Polaroid meant for photography. I knew that Fuji was still making instant film but the difference is more than i realized at the time. I was used to single load but Fuji only makes pack load. I never even knew about pack load. Hard to explain to outsiders what the single sheet polaroid meant for doing large format work. I have the sound of removing the sheet indelibly marked in my memory. Perhaps the infinity project can bring it back.

anyway, time to get my toyo view camera out of the house.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

How many megapixels is that?

[mattkime]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
How many megapixels is that?

A BAJILLION!!!

actually, i'd says its somewhere in the range of 100 Megapixels. But now that I've said that, I'm sure that someone will swear that they get prints that are just as sharp from their 15 megapixel digital slr.

[wowzer]

Heck, I get sharper pics from my cellphone 1.3 megapixel camera. ;-)

[M>B>]

A series of wide angle lenses and a bag bellows?

[Buzz]

you were probably closer w/ a bajillion than w/ 100 megapixels... seeing as how they now cram over 20 megapixels into approx a square inch and a quarter, and your 4X5 has 20 square inches of "sensor", that would actually be over 300 megapixels... but ya just gotta love the bajillions :-)

post links to your pics after you take them.

[vision63]

Just go out and shoot something cool that speaks to you. Then show us.

[Rolando]

Does that thing record 720p or 1080i? :oldfogey:

[Racer X]

years ago, I heard 35mm film was 14-18 megapixels depending on the film/emulsion. So 200+ megapixels perhaps (ballpark) Maybe as high as 250.

[mrbigstuff]

there is simply no equivalent in digital to the gentle gradation of tone one can achieve with film in this size. it's spectacular. but, everyone is concerned about "how sharp" the image is and looking at the close-ups of those funky little objects on dpreview.com. rather sad.

i attended an opening last night with some photography and all of it was fuzzy; those images were great.