Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maybe because they have to do everything, and one set of gear is just easier? If my reputation depended on it, I'd have a brace of D3s. And a slave to carry them for me. :P On May 23, 2009, at 6:36 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Yea well he's shooting people close in around the world and is > rather known > for doing so. Plus gets results in the fine print area. > That's why I posted it having just by chance having come upon it. > > So its not like DSLR's are for long teles then never printed on paper. > > We can have our own very interesting ideas on alternate gear. > Its just that the vast majority of top photographic crafts people > are NOT > using alternate gear. Somehow they all manage to get away with it. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: "wildlightphoto at earthlink.net" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 18:02:36 -0400 >> To: <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] a quick hello >> >> Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>>>> >> 30x40 by the way seems to be the format JAMES NACHTWEY is using in >> his >> latest show in LA with output using K3 Epson inks and printer and >> from a >> canon full frame camera. Preferring wide glass. >> <<< >> >> [RANT] >> I don't care what format Nachtwey or any other famous person is >> using. The >> context of his photos and his target market are entirely different >> from >> mine, as they are for numerous other people who know what they >> want from >> their camera. I care more about the content and quality of my >> photos than >> what's good enough for someone else. >> >> Where the format and brand of camera a famous person uses matters >> is when >> selling a product to people who don't know what they want or how >> to get >> what they want. It's hero worship and marketing departments use >> it to >> manipulate us into buying their products. >> [/RANT] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information THEIN Onn Ming *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com www.flickr.com/mingthein