maandag, maart 07, 2005
Digital Journalist over Magnum en Leeson
De nieuwste editie van The Digital Journalist geeft veel aandacht aan het boek Magnum Stories. Ook bevat het een multimedia-gesprek met fotojournalist David Leeson, en probeerde David Alan Harvey de Epson R-D1 zoekercamera uit:
Everything in my last book, The Divided Soul, was shot with a Leica and basically the 35mm lens, occasionally the 28mm. For what I do I don't need a lot of different lenses. I don't shoot news, I don't shoot sports. I shoot the world as it exists from about four feet to about 15 feet in front of me. A rangefinder is the perfect camera for that.
Digital photographers go on about how useful it is to be able to review pictures you've shot on a camera's LCD screen, but if you work the way I do you need to be wary of it. If you stop to look at what you've got so far you can lose the rhythm of your shooting.
The trouble with the R-D1 is that unless you want to put an auxiliary viewfinder on the hotshoe, and frame and focus through two different windows, the widest lens you can use is a 28mm. And because of the smaller-than-35mm chip, this gives you the equivalent of a 42mm lens in 35mm terms. The narrower angle of view can be restrictive; you have to jockey for position a little more. I'm a one-film, one-lens guy anyway. The 21mm Leica lens would be ideal on the R-D1, about equivalent to 32mm, if only you didn't have to compose with the separate finder.
Everything in my last book, The Divided Soul, was shot with a Leica and basically the 35mm lens, occasionally the 28mm. For what I do I don't need a lot of different lenses. I don't shoot news, I don't shoot sports. I shoot the world as it exists from about four feet to about 15 feet in front of me. A rangefinder is the perfect camera for that.
Digital photographers go on about how useful it is to be able to review pictures you've shot on a camera's LCD screen, but if you work the way I do you need to be wary of it. If you stop to look at what you've got so far you can lose the rhythm of your shooting.
The trouble with the R-D1 is that unless you want to put an auxiliary viewfinder on the hotshoe, and frame and focus through two different windows, the widest lens you can use is a 28mm. And because of the smaller-than-35mm chip, this gives you the equivalent of a 42mm lens in 35mm terms. The narrower angle of view can be restrictive; you have to jockey for position a little more. I'm a one-film, one-lens guy anyway. The 21mm Leica lens would be ideal on the R-D1, about equivalent to 32mm, if only you didn't have to compose with the separate finder.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 08:34
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