Joseph S Wisniewski

No, they weren't SLRs at all (except for that psychotic junk pile the Nikonos RS, which used an entirely different lens family).

There, I cut some of your crap. Now, put up or shut up, and tell...

Dave, that is indeed the way this sort of thing is normally done, for everything from sighting, rangefinding, or composition applications, to excitation lasers for fluorescence imaging, to...

You heavily emphasize equipment differences in your other thread. The first picture was injured by the distracting bokeh of the lens chosen, which made those annoying background structures...

Agreed. I have Dell ultrasharps all over the place, ranging from 24 to 30. They cal easy and stay calibrated for long periods.

Probably doesn't matter. Nikon launched the last resolution leader, the D800, in February. What "ceiling" is this? There's steady incremental progress, with no sign of any ceilings or...

Sorry. Make that 1888. Glad some of you caught it.

September 4, 1988, George Eastman was granted patent 388,850 for his box camera design, and on the same day, he was also granted the trademark "Kodak". Forget film vs. digital debates for a minute....

Don't use the "s word", it's very rude, LOL. Seriously, there's several reasons why larger sensors are much harder to make, and no reasons, at all, why they "should be" easier. Earlier, you drew...

I did. Ilford opened a lab of their own because too few of the remaining film labs could develop Ilford's film or print on Ilford's paper any more. It's just another step in the shuttering of the...

Thought you were serious, until I got to the part about putting a potato in each bag, LOL. Seriously, though, the USMC has some of the finest, most balanced regimens you'll ever encounter. Their 20...

Mike has enough sensors stashed away to build a few more backs. Do you see the ones on his site that say "sold out". Those are the ones he's exhausted his sensor stock for.  Once the rest are gone,...

They had several different 645 series. You're probably thinking of the GA645, a series of fixed lens rangefinder and AF models (yes, medium format "point and shoots". Fuji explored virtually every...

Take your own advice and "look at the site". Don't just look at what the rumor guy wrote, or the images he clipped out of the PDF file, follow the link to the PDF he provided to as support, and...

I did grow up with medium and large format. I even designed and built my own 4x5. I also learned the magic of a 35mm emulsion called Tech Pan before it was called Tech Pan (I started with its...

Why did they overcome those limitations? Because the enormous demand made overcoming them worthwhile. (to really understand the demand, pick up a science magazine from the 70s and check out the...

They were mainly from lower contrast emulsions. Just like platinum printing (a personal favorite), the compressed tonal range created the impression of enormous tonality. Unfortunately, the cost...

Well, something is. How much do you know about the sensor industry? I'll bet that you're ignorant of the fact that the current owners of the old Kodak and DALSA sensor operations are getting ready...

You're welcome. No. Afraid it can't. Medium format became popular with hobbyists and students because, at the low end, it can be built even cheaper than 35mm gear, because of the physics of the...

Certain pros: mostly wedding shooters. Fashion drifted all over: some liked 35mm for the maneuverability. Product looked at medium format as "sometimes good enough" and a time and money saver over...

You're doubly wrong. First, your area calculations are a little wrong. 35mm is 24x36mm = 864mm2 645 is 40.5x56mm = 2268mm2, 2.62x larger 6x7 is 56x66mm = 3696mm2, 4.28x larger Second, your science...