[Leica] Salgado now great image/camera ?

[rgacpa at yahoo.com (Bob Adler)]

Geoff,
I'm I reading you right? Are you saying that the only reason for Leica glass 
is for street reportage?
Best,
Bob
?Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com 




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From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 12:29:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Salgado now great image/camera ?

George, at 12x18 it is stunning in several forms. I may try the limit of my
3800 soon. We shall talk when I'm home.
I do also subscribe to the view that larger prints are meant to be
viewedfrom further way and with the basics in place there is little to limit
the print size if that's appropriate for your end purpose.
Steve's viewpoints are perfectly valid of course, but for me street
reportage is by means the only reason for superb Leica glass

2009/6/3 George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>

> Traditionally - perhaps.
>
> If you saw Geoff's recent print shared in the print exchange
> you may think differently about the M8 as a landscape tool.
>
> I'm not sure how large a print he could take it to.
> But at 8x10 it looks like a contact print from an 8x10 negative.
>
> Stunning really.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 2, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>
> this is a terribly interesting discussion Geoff, and the points you
>> mention, really get me thinking further about something I already deeply
>> believe,
>>
>> the quest for technical excellence above spontaneity and content would
>> certainly force me to consider large format, super large negatives, or
>> whatever? :-)? , as well as a tripod...
>>
>> striving for that level of pure technical excellence, would not have me
>> using a hand held camera with a cropped sensor, designed for quick and
>> discrete street shooting, capturing spontaneity...
>>
>> as I see it, these are? two quite different goals, the accomplishment of
>> each one being very difficult, and the where withall to do each, at cross
>> purposes...
>>
>>
>
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Cheers
Geoff
'Life's not B&W, except at both ends'
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