----- Original Message ----- From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi"
Subject: Re: SV: Any reason not to buy a *istD?
You should read this month's Lenswork interview with Nick Grant regarding his wildlife photos from Africa. He uses a Pentax 6x7 camera and gets in CLOSE. Patience and a tolerance for letting the world do as it might is essential. His wildlife photos are the only ones I've seen in recent years that really do the subject justice, to my eye. All these "fit a 600mm telephoto and bang a hundred shots off in 10 seconds" pictures are boring. His technique allows the intimate expression of the animals to surface.
For every photographer who does this successfully, there are more than likely dozens who are only successful in scaring the animals off their nests, or away from their cubs or away from their feeding places. It's all very well and good to use such an arguement in a theoretical debate, but in practice, most of these types of photographers are doing more harm to their subjects than their *intimate expressions* will ever be worth as photographs.
William Robb
