Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And impact (or style) doesn't have to be all that technical. There is a lot of cognitive dissonance at the intersection of art and equipment. On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote: > NOTHING get Mark up on a crusade more than speaking of crop factor sensors > in the same level as "full frame" sensors. > > He is not wrong - all else being equal, bigger is better. That's why people > like Geoff Hopsterman, John McIAmYourMaster and Bob Adler-the-Man etc. > shoot with medium format data back, and poor sob like me lugs around a 4x5 > because I can't afford a MFDB. > > However, it is also true that professional ARE using lesser cameras than > Nikon and Canon full frame and they are getting paid for it. Names that are > in the Magnum rolls and other top agencies. If you read the bylines and do > some googling, you know who they are. > > The Image IS everything. No one ever talks about the lousy technical > aspects of the world's greatest photographs. They talk about how great the > impact they have. > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto > // https://www.facebook.com/Transformations.CosplayPortraits > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Chris Saganich www.imagebrooklyn.com