Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:56 AM 11/19/99 +0000, Mike Johnston wrote: >With major artists in any media, we need to look at the evidence of the >work first. Eisenstadt was a devoted 35mm photographer. Winogrand, >Cartier-Bresson, Ernst Haas, Rodchenko, Ralph Gibson, the list goes on >and on. Ansel Adams was NOT a "devoted" 35mm photographer by ANY stretch >of the meaning of the word. Mike, I never claimed he was a devoted Leica user. Maybe Marc did. But a man who know how to choose equipment, and when 35mm was appropriate, he gave up his Nikon and bought a Leica when the R4 came along. When he was old and on his last legs, Leica was the camera of choice, when even his Hasselblad was too heavy. I suspect he wasn't a devoted user of anything, he used so many different cameras and lenses. He was faithful to manufacturers who gave him equipment, thus his consistent use of Hasselblad, and Contax in the early years. But that's not devotion. It's economic good sense for a photographer who spent most of his career struggling to stay solvent. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?