tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7744248.post-1120967197583731542005-07-09T22:46:00.000-05:002005-07-09T23:10:25.276-05:00<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right:20px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewatkinson/24696123/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://photos21.flickr.com/24696123_cd6ca1310b_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; padding-top:0px; margin-top: 0px; color:#8c6956;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewatkinson/24696123/">my (sort of) new (kinda) camera (um well...)</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/andrewatkinson/">blind sam</a>. </span></div><p style="margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;" width="300" class="body">I've bought myself a dicomed scanback ca.1998 (now incarnated as <a href="http://www.betterlight.com" class="body">betterlight</a>). A scanback differs from a contemporary camera in that the exposures are of the order of ten minutes, more like a C19th camera than anything that could be understood as a camera now. Similarly, the detail is more comparable to a C19th negative than a digital neg or even most films.<br /><br />To put it in terms of misleading and blunt metrics, the dicomed scans at 45 megapixels each channel meaning that if one should choose to be pedantic, it could compare to a 135 megapixel bayer grid (aka <a class="body" href="http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/Camera_System/Color_Filter_Array_01.htm">Colour Filter Array</a>). <br /><br />More significant, is the nature and mode of engaging with the equipment and how that forces certain types of relationship of photographer to subject to camera to experience, precipitating a gamut of work; a style of composure; a different epistemology and ontology of time; a significance in transience and permanance; a presumption of stillness; some conditions of lighting; an always larger degree of dedication; a focus upon the whole, the details and the Bach like relations of <a class="body" href="http://www.google.com/search?hs=tsm&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22internal+communication%22+%22terry+eagleton%22&btnG=Search">internal communication</a>, that creates a self sustaining poetry; and, amongst an infinite world of other atomic qualities better viewed holistically, the mechanics of the the poetry of the technological image.</p><br clear="all" /><br /><div class='tag_list'>Tags: <span style=font-size:70%;><a href=http://technorati.com/tag/photography rel=tag>photography</a> <a href=http://technorati.com/tag/dicomed rel=tag>dicomed</a> <a href=http://technorati.com/tag/C19th rel=tag>C19th</a> <a href=http://technorati.com/tag/time rel=tag>time</a> </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7744248-112096719758373154?l=www.andrewatkinson.net%2Fblogger.html' alt='' /></div>andrew atkinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18127058766733509020noreply@blogger.com