[Leica] An article about professional/serious photographer using Micro Four Thirds for magazine covers

[jwlee01 at gmail.com (John Lee)]

To the LUG,

This was a subject of Kyle's presentation, M4/3rd applications in
commercial photography, at NYLUG '13, held at ICP in July 2013.

- John

On 2/25/14, kyle cassidy on the lug <leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd be kind and copy and paste the whole article in this post but you'd 
> miss
> out on all the photos, and there are a bunch.
>
> https://medium.com/people-gadgets/bbae2adcadc6
>
> It starts like this:
>
> Ever since the camera was, first really discovered and then later invented
> it?s been a process of great evolution but never really deviating from it?s
> most basic design???kind of like a drill???it still works the same way it
> did when it was invented, but a drill you get today is a lot more useful
> than one made in the 1920s. The principles of light that make a camera
> possible were discovered as least as far back as the ancient Greeks who
> found that if you poked a hole in the wall of a dark room, whatever?s
> outside would be projected on the opposite wall. It wasn't terribly useful
> because you could always open a window and see what was out there much more
> clearly (and not upside down), but it was the discovery that got people
> thinking ?how can we make a record of what?s projected on this wall??
> Eventually in the 1800s Niepce and Daguerre figured out how to record these
> images chemically but the cameras were slow and they were huge and during
> the American Civil War if you were a photographer you needed to travel
> around in a wagon full of junk just to make photos. Cameras kept getting
> smaller and by the 1940s they were pretty portable, and by the 1950s they
> were very portable and this is probably where the modern ?photo gadget age?
> began. Essentially, what you?re carrying around today is what they were
> carrying around then???one big exception being that there?s no film. 
> Another
> of the really big differences is that the extra stuff has really, really
> gotten better. There are all sorts of lenses and lights and attachments 
> that
> didn't exist in the 1950s that are available today. So you basically have a
> camera, and then you start needing all this stuff because each little bit 
> of
> stuff gives you more options when you're out in the field. And eventually,
> you're traveling with maybe 30 pounds of gear when you go on the road. And
> that?s what I typically do, I'm a nomadic photographer, I get on an
> airplane, I go somewhere where I may or may not have someone helping me, 
> but
> more often than not, whatever I pack in is what I'm carrying with me all 
> the
> time.
>
> the rest of the article, and some micro four thirds photos here:
>
> https://medium.com/people-gadgets/bbae2adcadc6
>
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