Photography is not a poor man’s hobby. It can be of course, but it’s one of those things that the more money you throw at it, the better the image quality becomes. That says nothing of technical or artistic merit fortunately, as that’s where the poor man can have his revenge on the wealthy showoff with his Hasselblad. But wouldn’t it be nice to have it all… the skill to take technically brilliant photos, with creative flair and suburb image quality.

I can’t point you to a website where you can order the first two, but I did run across this article which pretty much covers the third. I’m not sure if it was on The Luminous Landscape first or not, but I found it there as well as on my namesake website, www.photografica.com. You would probably not know them as they are a camera shop in Copenhagen Denmark, specialising in the upper end of camera equipment, both digital and analogue. When I went to get my domain name, photografica.com was gone, but at the time I didn’t bother checking who had it. Only after deciding to register photografica.com.au instead, I realised it was a Danish business that had beat me to it. The ironic thing with that is that I lived in Copenhagen for many years and no doubt rode past this shop many many times. Maybe I subconciously liked the name, but I didn’t remember it.

Anyway, diversion over. The article is about putting together an “ultimate image quality” system, and it’s quite a read. The Luminous Landscape version has more pictures, but personally I think photografica’s post is easier to read.(edited to add that sadly, I can’t find photografica’s version anymore)

[tags]photografica, ultimate image quality, view cameras[/tags]