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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Afghanistan follow-up
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 00:17:51 -0500
References: <C766B910.5B74F%mark@rabinergroup.com>

>> Thanks for this, I recently saw an exhibition of images of a guy who had
>> travelled all over Afganistan. For "artistic" reasons, he did all his
>> work
>> on pin hole roll film cameras. What a shame was all I could think (and
>> for
>> once Helen agreed) that these simply wonderful images that the world
>> should see are blurred OOF representations when a simple M would have
>> brought home the bacon.
>>
>> There is good pin hole work, don't get me wrong, but taking crappy
>> pictures because the country was "crappy" (his concept was more that the
>> images required "luck" as did much of life in the country) seemed a sad
>> waste of a wonderful adventurous journey.
>>
>> Each to his own
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Alastair
>>
>
> Or instead of "crappy'   country - technique he had a huge RESPECT for it
> so
> he used what he felt to be and many would a agree a SUPERIOR technique to
> those who would shoot tiny chunks of 24x36mm film hand held on not
> particularly high rez film to be developed in a Kiosk in a parking lot.
>
> Pin hole photography is easy to underestimate.*
> And this is large format. Tripod work.
>
> *
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_camera
>
> Mark William Rabiner

Ok Mark, you got me here, I certainly did not mean crappy country or to be
disrespectful: you have been hoping to trap me and have. Well done

Happy new year

Alastair



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