Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:21 PM 1/31/98 -0500, you wrote:=20 > > The different approaches to photography are amazing.=A0 National= Geographic > photographers take the opposite approach.=A0 They usually shoot 200 - 400 rolls > of film for each story. True, though an essay Jim Richardson did recently was much more spare in= film usage. Jim Stanfield and Bill Allard often go well over a thousand rolls for= a shoot. But that is changing. National Geographic's bean counters are beating the photographers down to six week essays rather than six months. Expect a concomitant reduction in quality of images. The director of photography, Tom Kennedy, was fired over the issue. They'll still be great, but there's only= so much even they can do with such restrictions (which I can only wish I had). =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.