Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Still and motion pictures
From: "JeffS" <segawa@netone.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 09:52:15 -0700

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From: Peterson_Art@hq.navsea.navy.mil <Peterson_Art@hq.navsea.navy.mil>
>     A still photo therefore
>     may lend itself more easily to an artist's use of a situation to make
>     a statement of his or her choosing, whereas a motion picture (apart
>     from an artificial creation, like a commercial movie) may facilitate a
>     deeper, fuller, or more accurately understood reportage of an event.


Art, I think you may underestimate the extent to which moving pictures,
including those seen in television news, can be (and are) manipulated for
greatest entertainment value and visual interest! I should know--I was part
of that for years. Drama is heightened by zooming in or out, by camera
motion, and by editing technique. The writer Ernest Callenbach, for one, has
proposed dispensing with the whole quaint notion of "Journalistic
Objectivity" and replacing it with one in which journalists make their
biases known, then have at it, allowing their audience to form their own
conclusions.

My own favorite sources of info are international radio. That, and the
Sunday New York Times. London's Times seems to have grown lighter and
fluffier in recent years-a real shame.

Jeff Segawa
See my photography online at
http://www.netone.com/~segawa