Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry Z. offered: Subject: [Leica] Re: NYT photo editor > When I worked for the Boston Globe more than half a century ago, our > photo editor didn't know or care what type of camera took a picture. We > used company issued 4x5 Speed Graphics, Rolleis, Medalists and assorted > privately owned Leicas and Contaxes. I drove around with a loaded Leica on > the car seat next to me in case I spotted a bank robbery in progress or a > treed cat being rescued. All the editor cared about was that the picture > was clear and met the deadline.<<<< Larry I think they all worked similarly then and today a half century later, probably well into the future also. > He did have a few peculiarities also shared by the NYT editor. He frowned > on any picture taken with a wide angle or telephoto lens. The camera, he > felt, was an eyeball surrogate.<<< We never had to worry about that too often as the City Editor was also the so called photo-editor. And his method of correcting angles he didn't like was to use a pair of 16" scissors and cut out the part of the picture he liked or the space he had to fill! Like some times a beautiful 3-4 column photo would have the centre cut out and used as 2 column photo. Often screwing it up that one hardly recognized what it was. :-( It was truly a whole different world in the good old days of being a news paper photographer.:-) But you truly loved what you were doing in those days even if we had a few strange editing ducks to deal with.:-) Today? It's all bottom-line crap that drives newspaper space for advertising and in many cases photography is given short shrift as it takes up "revenue producing ad space!" :-( ted tedgrantphoto.com