Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, to paraphrase Ansel from "the camera," lens sharpness is absolutely secondary to the aesthetic and other capabilities of the photographer. Great images come from Holgas; great images can come from digital media using lenses that are not perhaps up to NASA laboratory standards; and lots of really mediocre images often crop up despite the over-the-top quality and specs of a given photographer's gear. on 11/5/01 12:52 PM, Kyle Cassidy at KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu wrote: >> I was at the Photo Expo in New York on Friday. Canon had an >> interesting >> digital photography exhibition. They stuck a model in a small >> studio >> setup, gave a photographer a D30 (Canon's "consumer" digital SLR, of >> modest specs), and started taking pictures. The D30 does not use >> special lenses; it uses EOS lenses. The photographer was using the >> 28-135mm zoom. Moments after the picture was taken, it was >> transmitted >> to large video screens for the audience to see. The photos were >> then > > i did see that exhibit, the results were remarkable, the printouts were > great, even huge, but i was really impressed with the skill of the > photographer who managed to take some extraordinary photographs of a model i > didn't think was that extraordinary, beautiful images. nice huge seven foot > softbox too, damn i need one of those. very low lighting too, it didn't seem > to be more than 250 watts of light coming out of that thing. but the results > were, indeed, very very nice. > > the worst part about it was that the photographer kept talking. > > kc > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html