...in a single snapshot.
My friends Ric and Kent visited Bandelier National Monument on Veterans Day last week. Kent was using his Kodak 2D View Camera to take some 8x10 B&W photos of the ancient ruins there. Meanwhile, I used Glass to document his process while Ric used his Canon DSLR to capture the beautiful fall scenery.The result was a photograph that I've long wanted taken: a view camera next to Glass.
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It summarizes all that has happened since 1921 when Kodak introduced their 2D. Ric took the raw image through a Fuji Velvia filter and then applied a sepia effect, some random scratches, and a border.
As monument visitors walked past Kent's set up, he would joke about the massive camera being his "point and shoot camera." I just kept on filming.
We had an interesting discussion about the differences between composing a photograph with both eyes (either a view camera or a digital camera/smartphone with LCD screen) and with one eye (traditional 35mm film camera or digital camera with a viewfinder). If nothing else, a viewfinder makes it trivial to take digital photos in bright sunlight.
Now time to build that "ground glass" app for Android--inverted, soft-focus images for the preview to mimic the effect of previewing an image on ground glass in a view camera.
