Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] re: vs digital (canon at javitz)
From: George Day <george@rdcinteractive.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 16:03:39 -0800

Well, to paraphrase Ansel from "the camera," lens sharpness is absolutely
secondary to the aesthetic and other capabilities of the photographer.
Great images come from Holgas; great images can come from digital media
using lenses that are not perhaps up to NASA laboratory standards; and lots
of really mediocre images often crop up despite the over-the-top quality and
specs of a given photographer's gear.

on 11/5/01 12:52 PM, Kyle Cassidy at KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu wrote:

>> I was at the Photo Expo in New York on Friday.  Canon had an
>> interesting
>> digital photography exhibition.  They stuck a model in a small
>> studio
>> setup, gave a photographer a D30 (Canon's "consumer" digital SLR, of
>> modest specs), and started taking pictures.  The D30 does not use
>> special lenses; it uses EOS lenses.  The photographer was using the
>> 28-135mm zoom.  Moments after the picture was taken, it was
>> transmitted
>> to large video screens for the audience to see.  The photos were
>> then    
> 
> i did see that exhibit, the results were remarkable, the printouts were
> great, even huge, but i was really impressed with the skill of the
> photographer who managed to take some extraordinary photographs of a model i
> didn't think was that extraordinary, beautiful images. nice huge seven foot
> softbox too, damn i need one of those. very low lighting too, it didn't seem
> to be more than 250 watts of light coming out of that thing. but the results
> were, indeed, very very nice.
> 
> the worst part about it was that the photographer kept talking.
> 
> kc
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