Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greg, You are right-on with your observation and analysis of what camera is used for what in photojournalism. In the daily street photography that political campaigns represent, where there is NO control of events, distance, placement, lighting, etc., flexibility is the key to success.... and news photographers found early that autofocus, flash fill-in, and zooms all worked together to get usable images. Unfortunately, the Ms that I used to use in the 70s in my White House work have long since been replaced by working photographers with Canon EOS systems. (Nice of you to note my old manual-focus Canon and the incredible fluorite-element Canon 300mm 2.8 lens - the first and only lens I ever saw tested that produced results called <perfect> at center and edges from 2.8 to 22.) Fred Ward