Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Someone wrote: The quality i seen in Gibsons and Salgados work goes beyond content for me. There is a technical edge to the work. The work does not to me look like it was shot with Nikon/Canons. To which I respond - predictably - Horse freakin hoooey - The thing that makes Salgado's work stand out so is that he has The Eye. And then there is the fact that, among photojournalist/documentary photographers, he has the distinction of being a master of the craft of photography. Unlike a Eugene Smith, whose work is brilliant but whom one might guess never owned a light meter, Salgado clearly but an enormous amount of time and effort into considering light quality, exposure, depth of field, etc etc. etc. And in the field in which he works, that makes him exceptional. Let's not forget, btw, that he used to use Olympus equipment...and I'd be willing to bet that you couldn't - whether or not your life depended upon it - tell the difference between his Leica work and his Olympus work. And, I'd also be willing to be that there are two reasons why Salgado now works with Leicas, rather than with Olympus gear - the Leica gear is far far more rugged and reliable; and, I'll be he gets more and better support from Leica than he got from Olympus. To me the fact that they shoot with Leica's does make a difference. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html