Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/27

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Subject: [Leica] Canon S90
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 15:51:28 -0700
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I think the only "consumers" that care about the equipments are the Fashion
Ad agencies and the like. Certainly art galleries don't care a hoot, and
neither does Reuter or cnn. "PRO" only use Leica or Canon or Hassy etc. is a
worn out mantra.


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:48 PM, slobodan dimitrov <
slobodan.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:

> What I use, for what a situation calls for, is my business. As it is, most
> clients are visual illiterates. The better editors rarely interfere. These
> days one is bound to get a kid who's on the job by default. All they know
> is
> pricing, from there end, and rarely know shoot requirements.
> But I have to say, I have an image of Paulo Freire, shot with an M4 and 3rg
> gen 35mm 'cron, going into a sociology textbook. It was shot on TX,
> indoors,
> and barely printable. Today, I can outshoot that equipment combination with
> the Canon S90, or better with a T2i, never mind any late 1D. The only
> reason
> the shot is being printed is that he's dead, and the only image that I know
> of where he's looking into the camera. Otherwise, it's a poor technical
> quality image.
> S.d.
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Say, so you are a PRO and shooting with a finger nail sized sensor and
> get
> > paid for it?!!
> >
> > Blasphemy! :-)
> >
> > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:03 PM, slobodan dimitrov <
> > slobodan.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have one, along with the dedicated underwater case. While it's not as
> > > good
> > > in low light as the most recent Canon, or Nikon, it's better in low
> light
> > > than a G10, by far. I've had a number of shots published shot with it.
> > The
> > > client asked no questions about the quality.
> > > I'm thinking of getting this little critter for it;
> > > http://www.kleptography.com/rf/#camera_s90
> > >
> > > --
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