Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/02

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Subject: [Leica] Salgado now great image/camera ?
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 07:44:38 -0700
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On Jun 1, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Philippe Amard wrote:

> Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>
>> <> HCB photographs. Same scenario, would any of
>> his photographs have been worse or better with modern M glass and  
>> exposure
>> metering?
>
> Could have spoiled the whole thing Geoff, it might at least.
>
> I was at this HCB exhibition in Paris last Thursday.
> Lots of prints, each a masterpiece.
> Yet, some are on the verge of fuzzy, some are not that sharp, soft  
> in some cases to modern standards at least,
> the sea isn't even always level, etc.
> Technicalities doesn't seem to have been his concern at all...

hopefully his eye would have survived modern lenses....

evidently he felt that sharp lenses make dull photographs...


Steve



> I'm cautious here as I don't know.
>
> Only, each one of these 50 or 80 photographs has character.
> It doesn't pop at you, you just seamlessly sink into them.
> I'd bet he used the cam as he knew it could work.
> I think it's all that is to say about the gear.
>
> And when there, you don't need to know you're there to know who was  
> behind the camera, whatever the camera.
> That is a question you don't even ask.
> Opportunity, light, geometry, every thing tells you the camera was  
> just a tool he used to convey his vision.
>
> Yet, his tireur(s) should also receive more credits. As many Wows as  
> there are rints exposed.
>
> My two Pfennig of Saukraut ;-)
> Have fun in (sunny?) Berlin my friend.
> Best from Metz
> Philippe
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Salgado now great image/camera ?)
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