[Leica] IMGs: About those iPhones

[Mark Rabiner]

Its very frustrating to me to run into people who tell me how excited they
are about photography, image making and make long trips to make images but
in a million years can't understand why they'd have to put down their iPhone
for one second and maybe  buy a camera. I'm meeting a lot of people who
don't own cameras. But I do see scores of people, tourists from all over the
world in Times square who are doing their shooting with full DSLR'S though
most of them are more compact cropped format consumer cameras costing well
under a grand. But I always see people with tripods shooting the Flatiron
Building as well as in Times Square. And that's more hard core than me.
Camera use is being challenged in some senses. But the people who think
their iPhones is  their camera would be using a cheap point and shoot anyway
like most people always did.
I notice just out yesterday the new flagship Canon DSLR Mark 5 something has
built it wifi you can  post a shot you'd have just taken right to your
Facebook, Instasgram etc so your friends can see what you had for lunch
before you even eat it. More importantly perhaps you can controll your Canon
with your iPhone. This means you don't have to ever put your phone down.
People are lost without them... they like that light shining in their face.


On 8/25/16 3:59 PM, "Tina Manley" <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:

> I hear you loud and clear, Ted.  But if you can't beat them, you have to
> join them.  My stock agencies are all accepting photos from iPhones now and
> they pay the same thing for them that they do my photos from Leicas!  Which
> is not much.
> 
> Prices have gone down so far it's unbelievable, but they don't care anymore
> how your photos were taken.  There used to be a list of approved cameras
> and anything that didn't measure up was rejected.  No more!!  They will
> accept any photos from any device!
> 
> This week, Alamy has sold three of my photos, all taken with Leicas - one
> from Cuba, one from China, and one from South Carolina.  The prices they
> sold for were $5.42, $14.99, $10.83 all for 5 year's use!!  And my cut is
> half of that!!  It's only Thursday so I'm hoping for a good day tomorrow.
> It takes so much time to keyword the photos that I'm sure I'm not making
> minimum wage!!  Alamy is not my only agency but they are my main one.
> 
> I may be sending in more iPhone photos!  It's certainly easier to carry and
> since everybody in the world is using one, you can be invisible.
> 
> I would hate to have to enlarge the iPhone photos to 24" x 36", though,
> like the prints for my exhibit of the Syrian refugee children.  Those were
> all from my Leicas and even small crops enlarged that big look great!  I'll
> always depend on Leica when it really matters.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Hi crew,
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>> No question they are an interesting bit of a "recording instrument!" In the
>> hands of a very fine experienced photographer it captures images equal to a
>> LEICA!
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>> On some occasions' equal to LEICA LOOKING GLASS!
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>> In the hands of a talented skilled eyed photographer ?
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>> YOU CAN'T TELL IPHONE ? OR MULTI THOUSAND DOLLAR CAMERA. Which brings me to
>> what sorts out all the machines in the world?  IT'S THE HUMAN USING THE
>> CAMERA!!!!!!!!!!!
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>> AN IDIOT CAN USE THE HIGHEST PRICED leica produced! Yet every image is
>> nothing but a piece of "CRAP!"  They may not think it?
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>> The cheapest Iphone in the hands of a smashing great super talented shooter
>> and every photograph is a breath holder of beauty!
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>> The results are only as good/great / whatever, as the talented person using
>> the "apparatus!"
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>> Myself I have made one exposure with an iphone just for the hell of it. L
>> But I absolutely have no interest in "using/playing with one!"  WHY?
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>> I only see them as the destroyer of the livelihood of thousands of
>> "real-photographers" who now are unfortunately wallowing in the depressions
>> of unemployment. L
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>> OOh I bet the rebuttals will be somewhat ferocious over this.
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>> But just think about a few mass firings? SPORTS ILLUSTRATED REALEASED all
>> their staff, one if not more of major USA dailies cut their complete
>> photog/
>> darkroom and even their "photo editor!" Over a 25to 30 crew?
>> 
>> Oh I can hear the rantings! But how about some feelings for the photogs
>> who've dedicated 25 years dedicating their lives to the newspaper? Now
>> they're in the bread line trying to get food for their children?
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>> And all because of the iphone??
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>> Dr. ted grant O.C.
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