Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's more like the lenses provide a longer mid-range, than they are flat. When I worked at a rental darkroom, while in college, the Pentax rep used to come in regularly. He went through their contrast and sharpness philosophy a number of times. The mid-range was an important area of concern for them. S.d. On Sep 21, 2010, at 10:52 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information