Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:50 PM 5/16/2009, you wrote: >Anybody seen Fur?? It's the imaginary biography of Diane Arbus >starring Nicole Kidman. Should I look out for an imaginary Leica? > >Douglas Probably not: http://www.greeneone.net/arbus/ "Diane made another profound change with her camera. Previously, she had been using a Leica, which is a 35-millimeter camera. When used with the popular films, the pictures often exhibit a significant amount of grain. The visual perspective is that the grain slightly obscures the image. To Diane, grain was another version of a mask and undesirable. So she switched to a rollei medium format camera that offered two advantages. The camera provided sharper prints and less grain. In following her thread on realty, I believe that Diane wanted to remove any barrier that separating the film from the soul of her subject. In addition, the camera also had the ergonomic location advantage of being held at waist level. So, Diane was able to maintain a better connection with her subjects." Tina Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com