Amongst my collection of photo books I have a copy of a 96 page softcover
version of "Four Photographers" featuring Gary Bernstein, Al Gilbert, Leon
Kennamer and Monte Zucker. Mr Zucker is generously described as "...the
pre-eminent candid wedding photographer in the United States ......" and
indeed his all black and white photos in this thin book of mine are indeed
dream quality photos. One of them is perhaps the best wedding photo I have
ever seen.
Question ................ did Mr Zucker saturate his wedding shooting in the
600+ range with 35mm or 120 film or is the 600+ range now the opportunity
created by digital cameras where an almost infinite number of images that
can be shot from which a few winners can be chosen ? What would Mr Zucker
have done differently with a digital camera ...... and which one would he
have used ?
jh
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From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] 120 film NOT digital
> Does this mean you are out of the wedding business? Bill Barber
No, not at all. But between OMs and digital I've got that world kinda
covered right now. If I was to shoot with that camera I'd have to put
a hefty price premium to cover film and processing.
The style of shooting now is to saturate the coverage. I still like to
shoot in the 600 range, but I've gotten really burned the last couple
of years.
Reprint income has totally disappeared. We have to get 100%
of our income up front with the package. Package generally means an
album with a selection of stand-alone prints. My clientelle gets all
freaked out at the price of an all-inclusive package. If I could get
them all to buy $3000+ packages, I'd shoot all 600 with the Texas
Leica.
I don't cater to the carriage crowd. More like the shotgun-third
marriage-my ten children crowd. Honestly, I shot one of those with a
pocket camera one time. I could do it with my cellphone, probably.
The cool thing about the Texas Leica, is that the style of images is
totally different than the current DSLR look. Everybody and their
brother is shooting with the same lens-camera-flash combinations and
it shows. We're all about as original as an envelope of McDonalds
french fries.
AG
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