Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry, but what you say doesn't hold water. I am not a photojournalist, and you are and you have a zillion years more experience at getting photographs published in newspapers and magazines. Nevertheless, I know as sure as I know the Sun rises every morning that I can take my F2 with my 85/1.4 lens, and take a photograph with it in the most god-awfull lighting conditions, plaster the entire front page of a newspaper with it and you will not be able to distinguish that photograph from one taken with the finest Leica lens. It is a truism. But....I never claimed that photojournalists shouldn't use Leicas. Obviously many do. And many of the Magnum photographers do more than print their images on newsprint. I am also convinced that you wouldn't be able to distinguish photographs made on exhibition quality photographic paper, but we can save that fight for another day. ;-) Dan C. NO ARCHIVE (I hate doing this, but I have no other choice.) At 06:07 PM 20-11-98 -0600, you wrote: > >This is an old argument, and people who choose to believe they don't need >Leica will always claim they don't. Then why are Leica coveted? I can tell >you, from talking with Magnum photographers, and National Geographic >photographers, and others, that there are good reasons optically as well as >the well-known reasons. > >Ever see a picture run six columns? I have at least one a month that does. >You CAN see a difference in that case many times. Especially when it had to >be used wide open in really poor light. The Leica makes a big difference in >those conditions. We don't all shoot with fill flash with the sun behind >our shoulder. Our pictures aren't always full frame. We often choose to >shoot in really nasty light. Some of us (right Ted?) revel in bad light. > >Optically isn't the only reason I use Leica, but that is a good reason. >Yep, this newspaper photographer has converted several of my colleagues to >Leica just by letting them use one and they see it for themselves in the >negatives. We don't all aspire to only see our work on recycled toilet >paper. We are creators of "history on the run." Why not use the best? >-- > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > >Blessed are the censors; they shall inhibit the earth. > >