That is a popular cliche, but...
You CAN drive a nail with a rock, but who would want to? Some cars
just make good driving easy. Some cameras just allow you to make
pictures without getting in the way of the brain, like OMs and Leica
Ms. Unfortunately that long lasting scam of American marketing called
abstract expressionism has caused us to find "meaning" in things like
found objects and the occasional pleasing Holga image and confused them
with art.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Feb 3, 2005, at 1:17 PM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
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>> asud journal <asudjournal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> The best camera and the best tested lens, is just pieces of glass and
>> plastic without a good eye.
>> Some photographers producing nice photographs with toys cameras like
>> holgas. Some other producing crappy shots with a 1Ds mkII who have the
>> great sensor and so and so.
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> Well said.
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> Take a look at some of the most well known and respected photographs
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> 150 years, most of these have technical faults (not really sharp, poor
> contrast due to
> incorrect exposure, etc, etc.). So what is it that makes these
> photographs great ?
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> ...Wayne
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> Wayne Harridge
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