Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/26

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Subject: [Leica] Salgado S2
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:40:06 +0100
References: <C8BF0942.3D55%mark@rabinergroup.com>

...it's a rubbish article though.

Shame, I find Salgado fascinating.

Peter

On 22/09/2010 06:15, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> " On a more technical front, Sebastiao Salgado spoke about film vs. 
> digital.
> He no longer shoots with film as the reasons to go digital mounted up.?The
> silver in current medium format films, are currently at levels that 35mm 
> was
> 25 years ago.?The 600 rolls of 220 he carried on shoots weighed about 60
> lbs.?After 9/11 the security checkpoint that he goes through with exposed
> film (he told us 7 on the last trip) has affected the grain and contrast of
> the exposed film.?Plus there was the inevitable fight at each checkpoint to
> hand check the film. His assistant almost quit on his last trip from the
> constant battles.?So now it?s a Canon DSLR for him. 21 megapixels strong.
> But he is also looking at that new LeicaS2 with 37 megapixels.?And his
> ?film?? about 1.5 lbs of cards."
> 
> http://www.examiner.com/photography-in-national/sebastiao-salgado-the-genesi
> s-project
> Or
> http://tinyurl.com/365nozf
> 
> 
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> Photography
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> 
> 
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