Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you, Bill - A reminder once again that by far the most important photographic tools are the eye/heart/brain of the photographer. All the rest is technological window dressing. Bill Satterfield wrote: > > It is not the camera but the eye behind the camera. Get one of Sam Abel's > books and you will see what I mean. I believe one of his beautiful books > is--Stay The Moment. A good photographer can use a point and shoot and get > good photographs. A bad snap shooter can use a 4x5 and get bad photos. A rose > is a rose is a rose. > > Mxsmanic wrote: > > > Austin writes: > > > > > It depends on what you mean by "leading". Sure, > > > more people shoot 35mm than MF, no doubt... > > > > That's what I meant. > > > > > ... but not because of purely image quality, > > > which is probably reasonably indistinguishable > > > in 4x6 prints done at a local mini-lab. > > > > You are making my point, namely, that 35mm quality is already adequate for > > almost all purposes. Heck, even digital quality is adequate for a lot of > > purposes.