my (sort of) new (kinda) camera (um well...)
Originally uploaded by blind sam.

I've bought myself a dicomed scanback ca.1998 (now incarnated as betterlight). 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.

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 Colour Filter Array).

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 internal communication, 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.