At 06:48 PM 6/19/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>It's the carpenter, not the hammer.
But if the carpenter has to work with a kid's plastic toy hammer or a huge
sledgehammer he will not get the job done well and quick,
Newer, more modern tools may make jobs simpler or reduce worker fatigue or otherwise enhance the work environment but many great photos were made with 4x5 handheld Speed Graphic cameras with no automation, and Margaret Bourke White managed to build the start of her photo career with a second-hand TLR with a noticeable gouge in the taking lens.
We had two pro photographers in our store yesterday shooting film counter displays to illustrate the day's Kodak news. One was a bright young man from Bloomberg who schlepped in two backpacks full of stuff. He shot with a digital SLR with on-camera flash he never used and had a handful of lenses of which he used two. The second was a fellow closer to my age from the NYTimes. he had one digital SLR with on-camera flash he never used and two lenses. The second was stuffed (uncapped) in his trouser pocket.
Frankly they could as easily have completed this complex assignment with any 275.00 point-n-shoot piece of hardware right off our shelf. It's the carpenter. Not the hammer.
Absolutely true, but when you are a gadget freak and just love toys, it's both :-). Remember the old adage, "He with the most toys when he dies, wins." Now, if I could just convince my wife that I absolutely must have that new lens...
Mitch
-- Mitchell S. Baltuch Principal MountainStorm Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mountainstorm.com
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