Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If Salgato is looking for a "low contrast lens" then it would have been better he took some photo courses instead of economic courses As that's photo dumb stuff 101. He's thinking a "low contrast lens" will give him more latitude he's wrong. Presumptuous of me to say? Well you do hear some real misconceptions about basic photo craft coming from some top level people old timers or young timers. People who go to school to methodically study something but when they switch to photography when they get out they decide they're just going to be self taught deal. With photography being mainly an avocation or self taught vocation there's going to be lots of wrong stuff floating around. And now we have the internet. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:23:01 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Salgado S2 > > 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-t >> he-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. ] > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information