Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:59 PM 10/4/99 +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote: >I was looking at a book of Associated Press photos a few days ago, and >they were >all excellent. And none of them came anywhere near the theoretical resolution >limits of either lenses or film--indeed, most had no more resolution than >you'd >get from a simple point-and-shoot. Associated Press is staffed by people who are more concerned with speed than image quality. This is the wrong group of photographers to be looking at. As a photo editor who had to rely on the AP for photos from the world, it was a rare day I was not sadly disappointed with what was available. Don't get me wrong, they have some great photographers. Nick UT (the Vietnam photo of the girl running from the napalming of her village was his) still shoots for them. And some other great photographers. But in the case of the Russian photographers who helped them win a Pulitzer several years ago, I'll bet some were working with Zorkis or other cheap cameras by our standards. Wire service photography is about the LAST place you want to look for people fussy about their lenses. Especially now that their staffers are almost 100 percent digital. Contributors from newspapers, not so, but their staffers, yes. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. -Sam Abell; "Stay This Moment"