[Leica] Salgado now great image/camera ?

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

In researching this fellow's quest for "feeling" birds and the  
environment in his own life
<http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/jean-luc-mylayne/>

I don't perceive his tool choice as "using a stethoscope or a  
screwdriver as a hammer."
nor as "atypical way, to be different, or eccentric..."

Having worked extensively with large view cameras myself
I can easily feel his need for this tool, his working methods, and  
inventions, etc.
to achieve his unique vision.

To imagine that he should go out and get a 300 or 400 mm 2.8 auto  
focus stabilized lens, a couple extenders, and a full frame sensor  
digital body, because that's "the right tool for photographing birds"  
would simply make no sense for this contemplative photographic artist.

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
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On Jun 2, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:

> it's not something made to prove that the job can be done in an   
> atypical way, to be different, or eccentric...