Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]...it's a rubbish article though. Shame, I find Salgado fascinating. Peter On 22/09/2010 06:15, Mark Rabiner wrote: > " On a more technical front, Sebastiao Salgado spoke about film vs. > digital. > He no longer shoots with film as the reasons to go digital mounted up.?The > silver in current medium format films, are currently at levels that 35mm > was > 25 years ago.?The 600 rolls of 220 he carried on shoots weighed about 60 > lbs.?After 9/11 the security checkpoint that he goes through with exposed > film (he told us 7 on the last trip) has affected the grain and contrast of > the exposed film.?Plus there was the inevitable fight at each checkpoint to > hand check the film. His assistant almost quit on his last trip from the > constant battles.?So now it?s a Canon DSLR for him. 21 megapixels strong. > But he is also looking at that new LeicaS2 with 37 megapixels.?And his > ?film?? about 1.5 lbs of cards." > > http://www.examiner.com/photography-in-national/sebastiao-salgado-the-genesi > s-project > Or > http://tinyurl.com/365nozf > > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > mark at rabinergroup.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- =========================================================== Dr Peter Dzwig