Hi, > The photographers mentioned in the article used the state of the art > equipment of their day. [...] > I wonder what they'd use today?
many of the Magnum photographers, even the relatively young ones, still use Leica Ms. But many of them also use fully auto cameras. However, if you read articles by or about them which discuss their working techniques you'll find that many of them, although they have whizzy cameras, still shoot much of their work using hand-held incident meters, and with the cameras on manual, or aperture-priority. On the other hand, of course, you can also read comments by greats like Steve McCurry saying they shoot on auto all the time and trust their cameras completely. I think the common thread is that they all understand the fundamentals and technicalities of photography, and are completely in control of all the shooting decisions they make. -- Cheers, Bob
