The large-format (optical bench).
Even today, the design of the old cameras of the pioneers of photography is used in so-called optical bench, more modern and sophisticated, but always mounted on a bulky tripod and features a nice black accordion bellows.
This large and bulky device, which test themselves just to carry around, is the prince of studio photography, and especially the so-called still-life (still life), that the resumption of inanimate objects. It is sometimes also used for architectural photography because the optical bench allows you to correct the distortions of perspective.
The negatives are made from so-called sheet film, with sizes from 10x12 to 20x25. Each photo takes longer quite remarkable: it first begins to focus the image, then insert the flat film, then you shoot, and then removing the film. All this must be repeated for each photograph.
The definition of the details that you get is such that significant enlargements, even giant posters without losing image quality in any way. In the 30s, 40s, 50s, the photographer Ansel Adams, using the optical bench, took over the American national parks producing some of the most beautiful landscape images, and Robert Mapplethorpe, always with the optical bench, in the '70s and '80s produced some of the most beautiful pictures of the human body and flowers.
Even today, the design of the old cameras of the pioneers of photography is used in so-called optical bench, more modern and sophisticated, but always mounted on a bulky tripod and features a nice black accordion bellows.
This large and bulky device, which test themselves just to carry around, is the prince of studio photography, and especially the so-called still-life (still life), that the resumption of inanimate objects. It is sometimes also used for architectural photography because the optical bench allows you to correct the distortions of perspective.
The negatives are made from so-called sheet film, with sizes from 10x12 to 20x25. Each photo takes longer quite remarkable: it first begins to focus the image, then insert the flat film, then you shoot, and then removing the film. All this must be repeated for each photograph.
The definition of the details that you get is such that significant enlargements, even giant posters without losing image quality in any way. In the 30s, 40s, 50s, the photographer Ansel Adams, using the optical bench, took over the American national parks producing some of the most beautiful landscape images, and Robert Mapplethorpe, always with the optical bench, in the '70s and '80s produced some of the most beautiful pictures of the human body and flowers.