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Subject: [Leica] The New York Times Knows Its Stuff
From: shino at panix.com (Rei Shinozuka)
Date: Mon Jul 10 19:41:37 2006
References: <200607062305.k66N5GGd002155@server1.waverley.reid.org> <44B3024D.1070107@concentric.net> <9b678e0607101926t51f8f281s109b377134aa7a7e@mail.gmail.com>

if this were exchanged during a party that would have been one thing, 
but since it was for publication, i would have found someone on my staff 
who could answer precisely and authoritatively.  but of course, it was
the Times...  :-)

-rei


On Jul10 22:26, Don Dory wrote:
> Bob,
> You are perhaps being overly sensitive to an editor not knowing what is
> going on. :)  So what if a 1DsMkII becomes 35mm?  And compared to an APS-C
> sized sensor chip a Hasselblad is large format.  Personally, I put it down
> to people not wanting to keep up with the technical, it's a widget that
> magically makes whatever it is that you need made.  With the number of
> native born folk that go into the sciences dropping every year what do you
> expect?
> 
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
> 
> 
> On 7/10/06, Robert D. Baron <rbaron@concentric.net> wrote:
> >
> >I just noticed an online Q&A with Assistant Managing Editor for
> >Photography Michele McNally at
> >http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/media/asktheeditors.html  .
> >
> >In response to a query from an amateur photographer who asks about the
> >equipment the NYT photographers use, she says:
> >
> >> A. Yes, all of our photographers are equipped digitally. We currently
> >> use Canon 35mm Mark II's and D5's with a variety of lenses from 10mm
> >> to 600 mm. We have Hasselblad large format equipment that shoots
> >> film.
> >
> >
> >Now, am I being overly sensitive when I read something like this?
> >
> >I have to wonder how they convert the Canon 35mm images to digital, and
> >where they found large format instead of medium format Hasselblads.
> >
> >Maybe I'm just being overly picky.
> >
> >And maybe she doesn't need to know what equipment her staff is using
> >because she has a great eye for composition and news value.
> >
> >Anyone with knowledge of the newspaper business care to chime in here?
> >
> >--Bob
> >
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-- 
Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com
Ridgewood, New Jersey


In reply to: Message from rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron) ([Leica] The New York Times Knows Its Stuff)
Message from don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory) ([Leica] The New York Times Knows Its Stuff)