Did you see the exhibit? Did you see the quality of Salgado's photos? Have you compared them to the quality of other photos?
If you believe that equipment makes no difference, that's fine. But I assure you it does in the circumstances described. For small prints, you probably couldn't tell the difference. At 20 x 24 it makes a big difference. I advocate no particular cameras, lenses, or equipment - just that whatever you use must be of the highest quality and properly adjusted in order to obtain superior quality when making large-sized prints. And, as I also said, that has to be combined with talent and skill. Come back to this commentary when you've seen the exhibit and the quality of the prints, and have compared them to other photographs of a similar nature and size made with a consumer zoom. P�l Audun Jensen wrote: > If Cartier Bresson started started out today he would most likely used a > Nikon or a Canon EOS with a bloody zoom lens. I doubt his images would > have been worse for it. I find of those who insist on using the same > equipment as a famous photographer their admire whether its a Leica or a > Canon EOS-1, and then try to intellectualize their "choice" into having > anything to do with the images and their context quite funny. > Using 3200 ISO film makes all differences between quality lenses totally > meaningless; in fact, it could be argued that using quality lenses is > meaningless. > If you want to spend extra money on the best optics it's then a futile > exercise to leave the tripod at home. You'll never ever get the resolution > out of your lenses if you're not using the finest grained films and a > tripod unless you have invented a way to suspend the laws of physics. > "Street photography" doesn't really put any demand whatsoever on technical > image quality. That's why you can get away with murder in terms of > technique and still get front page of Life Magazine. > No, equipment doesn't make an impact photographically. Only on those > consumerist who needs alibies for spending money on their status symbols. > You find plenty of them on the various equipment photo newsgroups. They are > people who use Leica because Cartier Bression did or Canon because Arthur > Morris or Art Wolfe does; all of them argues that the name of the equipment > makes the difference. The equipment makes a difference in as much as the > photographer feels comfortable with it; that's about the extent of it. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~belinkoff/ - 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 .
