Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner actually wrote, apparently with a straight face - > >I did notice when I got my 60 AF macro Nikor last year that for not that >much more I could have gotten a used 60 macro Leica lens. Same one Salgato >uses for so much stuff and I've seen those prints. And they look better than >mine. And its not his enlarger lens or something he's putting in his Dektol. >Subject matter not included. Could it be, Mark, that he is a far, far better photographer than you (or I, or anyone on this list - no company excepted), that his negatives contain more information than yours, absolutely perfectly exposed, and that his printer puts you to shame? Salgado is nothing if not the consummate photocraftsman working today in black and white documentary photography; the only other photographer who comes close is Nachtwey. To suggest that the difference between his prints and yours might be a Leica macro versus the Nikon macro is such utter foolishness it boggles the mind: It is, in fact, an absolutely classic example of someone suggesting that "if I had me one of those Leiky cameras I'd be as good as that Hank Breson dude, but I've only got a crappy Canon/Nikon/Olympus/Minolta." ;-) --