Posted by Bob Stoddard on January 19, 2001 at 13:46:19:
In Reply to: How accurate is the Crown's rangefinder focusing? posted by Nick Rowan on January 17, 2001 at 15:01:35:--and making 25x mural-size enlargments from
: the 4 x 5 negatives.
: The pictures have to [be] absolutely needle sharp,
Nick, I have never made prints as large as you are talking about
(25 X [4 x 5] = 100" X 125"!) but I have read accounts written by
people who have, and the difficulty, time required, and expense are
considerable. In fact, you might want to find someone who is in the
business of making mural-sized prints and let them do it for you,
unless you enjoy great darkroom challenges!
Since you are interested in pictures that are "absolutely needle
sharp" it would seem to me that you ought to consider using an 8 X
10 or even larger camera. There is no doubt that at this size there
would be a noticeable increase in the sharpness and quality of the
result if you could use a larger camera. An older 8 X 10 or 11 X 14
camera could be bought, and later resold for about what you paid
for it. RKS