Bob wrote: > I've often thought of assembling a group of 10 photographers: > 5 seasoned enthusiasts with K-1000's / f2.0 50mm > 5 yuppies with $1500 anythings / Tamron 28-300mm > and setting them loose on N.Y. City ,each with one roll of > 36 exposure film-of their-choice. > I suspect the subjective & objective quality of photographs > at the end-of-day signal would be HEAVILY in favor of the > K-1000 group A photographer I worked with once had spent a few years in his youth working for an old veteran news photographer. The old man did _everything_ with 4x5 film. Even copy work. If he went to cover a news event, he would take his crusty old Speed Graphic and SIX SHEETS of film to cover the entire event. He'd always come back with six well-made, highly usable shots. According to my friend, this old fellow used to rant and rail against the know-nothing, weak-willed, unskilled "filmstrip photographers" who used 35mm cameras. He thought it was cheating--that the best days of photography were ending. That "real" photography was going to go all to hell. Some things never change, I guess. --Mike - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
