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

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Subject: [Leica] Salgado S2
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:05:23 -0400

What's rubbishy about it?

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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>
> Organization: Summa Ventures Ltd
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:40:06 +0100
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Salgado  S2
> 
> ...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
>> 
>> 
>> --------------------
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
>> mark at rabinergroup.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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