Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Heh, my summary of the talk I attended by Mr. Salgado a couple years which has pretty much the exact information is still my most popular blog post. People still find it and link to it... There is no evidence that he has switch to the S2... yet. He said he is looking for "low contrast" lens so I'm not sure whether the S2 lens would do... On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>wrote: > " On a more technical front, Sebastiao Salgado spoke about film vs. > digital. > He no longer shoots with film as the reasons to go digital mounted up.?The > silver in current medium format films, are currently at levels that 35mm > was > 25 years ago.?The 600 rolls of 220 he carried on shoots weighed about 60 > lbs.?After 9/11 the security checkpoint that he goes through with exposed > film (he told us 7 on the last trip) has affected the grain and contrast of > the exposed film.?Plus there was the inevitable fight at each checkpoint to > hand check the film. His assistant almost quit on his last trip from the > constant battles.?So now it?s a Canon DSLR for him. 21 megapixels strong. > But he is also looking at that new LeicaS2 with 37 megapixels.?And his > ?film?? about 1.5 lbs of cards." > > > http://www.examiner.com/photography-in-national/sebastiao-salgado-the-genesi > s-project<http://www.examiner.com/photography-in-national/sebastiao-salgado-the-genesi%0As-project> > Or > http://tinyurl.com/365nozf > > > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]