[Leica] Crop factor blah...

[CJ andS]

And impact (or style) doesn't have to be all that technical.  There is a
lot of cognitive dissonance at the intersection of art and equipment.


On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
wrote:

> NOTHING get Mark up on a crusade more than speaking of crop factor sensors
> in the same level as "full frame" sensors.
>
> He is not wrong - all else being equal, bigger is better. That's why people
> like Geoff Hopsterman, John McIAmYourMaster and Bob Adler-the-Man etc.
> shoot with medium format data back, and poor sob like me lugs around a 4x5
> because I can't afford a MFDB.
>
> However, it is also true that professional ARE using lesser cameras than
> Nikon and Canon full frame and they are getting paid for it. Names that are
> in the Magnum rolls and other top agencies. If you read the bylines and do
> some googling, you know who they are.
>
> The Image IS everything. No one ever talks about the lousy technical
> aspects of the world's greatest photographs. They talk about how great the
> impact they have.
>
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