Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I see, so B&W is the holy grail of films...ehhh! Gosh, those modern fools like Galen Rowell, Annie Leibovitz, et al they should know better than to use color slide film. After all they are only famous and worth near millions of US$. Ashame..... Peter K (Tina, just opinion. Is there another photographer aside Ted (nice line by the way Ted) that is still alive and feels this way, refusing to use colors nowadays? Doubtful.) > ---------- > From: Tina Manley[SMTP:images@InfoAve.Net] > Reply To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Sent: Monday, February 15, 1999 2:02 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Wedding photography with M6 and Noct. > > At 04:30 PM 2/15/99 -0500, you wrote: > but I grind my teeth > > when I read of conservative Leica owners holding on > > to black and white when such beautiful > > photos can be had with available light > > color prints, done by a well chosen lab, > > especially with Leica optics. > > Non-photo trip people always seem sorry > > their faces are black and white... > > in such context. The only way I'd use B&W > > would be in newsprint advertising, > > as a digital "reduction". > > > > Andre Jean Quintal > > > > Andre - > > To quote a famous Leica photographer (Ted Grant): "If you want to > photograph their clothes, use color. If you want to photograph their > souls, use black and white." > > Leically, > > Tina > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > > http://www.photogs.com/manley/index.html > http://www.pomegranates.com/frame/manley/index.html > http://members.tripod.com/~Tina_Manley/index.html >