Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 3, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Ken Carney wrote: > One of my friends here took his 8x10 outfit (84 pounds) to Paris a couple > of years ago for "street" photography. He had an objection from a > gendarme about taking photos of public places, but evidently those issues > can be resolved. He prints platinum/palladium contact prints, which are > great. I traded my Seal 16x20 dry mount press for two prints and got the > better part of the exchange by far. > > Ken > > On 4/3/2011 7:29 PM, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote: >> George Lottermoser OFFERED: >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica S2 >> >> >>> Paul Strand used an 8x10 for street photography in Egypt. ;-) >> >> But George that was in ancient times photographically speaking! Today? >> Digital etc? Probably not a hope he'd ever get away with it! But then one >> never knows??? The stranger and bigger the machine he may get away with >> it? Precisely the point Ken and Ted. The photographer chooses his equipment to fit his or her vision of the end product. We may tend to imagine that "street photography" can only be done with the gear used by the those we've come to know and respect as "street photographers." Yet others have done remarkable "street" work with other gear. <http://photo.net/street-documentary-photography-forum/00BRXx> <http://iloapp.stellaria.nl/data/_gallery//public/34/1289665327_resized.jpg> <http://renseblog.stellaria.nl/> Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist