Hi,
Horses for courses. While it's true that SLRs probably outnumber
RFs in professional use, there are still very many photojournalists
using RF cameras day in, day out and producing exceptional work with
them in areas where an SLR is not the appropriate choice.
Even during the time that SLRs were largely replacing RF cameras as
the automatic choice, photographers such as David Dougls Duncan, Larry
Burrows, Dickey Chapelle, Elliot Erwitt and many others used RF cameras
as well as SLRs. Today photographers such as David Harvey, Erwitt (still!),
Sebastiao Salgado and many, many other world class photographers still
use rangefinders alongside their SLRs. In Harvey's case he exclusively
uses rangefinders.
Certainly there is currently something of a vogue for rangefinders - and
there's no harm in that. But Erwitt, Harvey and others are not using
them because they've been brainwashed or because they're following a
fashion. They use them because they are highly effective cameras for a
certain type of work, and superior to SLRs in many ways.
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Bob
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Friday, March 30, 2001, 1:27:58 PM, you wrote:
[...]
> Yes, that's why when offered the horrid
> SLR in the 50's, all those pros, who depend on that camera for results,
> stayed with the wonderful RFs. The ONLY reason people like them is that they
> are different. In recent years photographers have been brainwashed with the
> seeds of dissatisfaction. The RFs represent a different solution. One that
> was reviewed and shown to be inferior by the camra choices of the 50's, 60's
> 70's 80's 90's and now the new millenium. Been there; did that. 46 years
> experience and a hell of a lot of invoices.
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