Wow! So it is possible to find one lousy digital shot and one good
silver shot among the thousands that must have been produced at such an
event....
Statistics is just WONDERFUL!
And we´re all supposed to bow down in humiliation before this
irrefutable proof that digital is junk, and we should all go out and
buy Speed Graphics...
Really, Karl, you´re happy with silver, as are lots of others. Shoot
silver, then! Quite a few of us are happy with digital. Then,
ple--eze, let us shoot that!
Maybe we all come around to producing some images...
Per Öfverbeck
http://foto.ofverbeck.se
2005-06-11 kl. 10.12 skrev karl shah-jenner:
out of the blue, someone who has no connection with this group just
sent me
a link to this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/08/technology/circuits/08schiesel.html?
ex=12
75883200&
:-)
"On the screen was a ..picture of a John Kerry rally ..which Mr.
Burnett
shot with a Canon 20D digital camera, the same camera used by
thousands of
other professionals around the world. Not surprisingly, the picture
looks
like thousands of others that were shipped around the globe during the
campaign.
The colors are bright. Every part of the image is crisp, so crisp that
just
picking the minuscule figure of Mr. Kerry out of the huge crowd takes a
"Where's Waldo?" moment.
And then Mr. Burnett flipped to a photograph taken seconds later with
the
ancient Speed Graphic. Suddenly, the image took on a luminescent
depth. The
center of the image, with Mr. Kerry, was clear. Yet soon the crowd
along
the edges began to float into softer focus on translucent planes of
color.
The effect is to direct the viewer's eye to Mr. Kerry while also
conveying
the scale and intensity of the crowd. In accomplishing both at the same
time, the old-fashioned photograph communicates a rich sense of meaning
that the digital file does not."
k
