Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"B. D. Colen" <BDColen@earthlink.net> >Still photos can have unparalleled emotional and visual impact - far >greater than that of film because they are in front of us longer and >can be observed and contemplated longer. Sorry, I can't agree with that. There are certainly cases where we have stills and video of the same event (flag raising @ Iwo, execution in the street in Viet Nam) where the stills are more powerful. But I don't think we can generalize in this way. Akira Kurosawa's film _Ran_ has emotional and visual impact on par with any still photography that I can think of, and there are other examples as well. No still picture can capture the intensity of the final downhill ski run that won Franz Klammer his Olympic gold medal, not in the way that the ABC cameras did... .......................................................................... Alexey Merz | URL: http://www.webcom.com/alexey | email: alexey@webcom.com