Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What's rubbishy about it? -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> > Organization: Summa Ventures Ltd > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:40:06 +0100 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Salgado S2 > > ...it's a rubbish article though. > > Shame, I find Salgado fascinating. > > Peter > > On 22/09/2010 06:15, Mark Rabiner 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 >> Or >> http://tinyurl.com/365nozf >> >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > -- > > =========================================================== > Dr Peter Dzwig > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information