Re: [Leica] was Galen Rowell now tools...

[Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>]

David Medley wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeffcoat Photography <jeffcoatphoto@sumter.net>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Galen Rowell
> 
> > Mark: I don't think it's a matter that the tools don't count it's a matter
> that a
> > master can work with any tool and get the results (however frustrating the
> > experience), but a great tool in lesser hands is no guarantee of great
> results.
> 
> I believe it was the English race driver Stirling Moss who once got into
> this argument with someone. I don't remember all of the details, but the
> gist of the story is that he took a brick truck (literally a brick truck)
> out on the race course and came within very few seconds of the record at the
> Brands Hatch (SP) raceway. Proving once again that a master is a master
> regardless of the tool in his hand.
> 
> Also, didn't Irving Penn once shoot a job with a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye to
> prove a point?
> 
> Cheers,
> David Medley
You saw my collection of Brownies here at my studio/house last month with
Michael L. David.
I use many of those plastic lensed or otherwise plastic cameras becasue of what
they can do for me, the look they provide a look that Leica's, Rolleiflex's or
Hasselblad can't. I makes a difference what tools you use. The right tool for
the right job. Within Limits. I guess Stirling Mosses brick truck had more than torque!
Mark Rabiner