Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Has anyone seen/read the works of Raghubir Singh ? I just borrowed one of his 10 photo-essay books on India, his homeland, from my local neighbourhood library..... and my, his works are fantastic !!!!!! He was also featured in "Popular Photography" just a few months back. What I'm curious is that his pics are very much like as if they were executed thru "rangefinder technique" but I was rather surprised to find out (from Pop Photography) that they were taken using one of his several old Nikon FA SLR almost exclusively. When asked why, he said the major deciding factor was the250 flash sync speed . Of course pics like these can be achieved with an SLR, but I thot , wouldn't all these pics could have been easier obtained thru a rangefinder camera ? Is there such a thing as a type of picture that a rangefinder camera can capture which an SLR can't ? Or maybe Singh took tons of pics (which he said he did) and cropped like crazy..... Any comments ? Rgds TMLee