Just so I do not sound like a crazy man advising Ken to go digital
instead of MF:
From the guy who has organized and overseen the Day in the Life books:
All the rigorous planning and African serendipity combined to produce
digital results that delighted Cohen. “The digital images are crisper,
they have more vibrancy and intensity. I’d told the photographers to
bring their other cameras, just in case. That turned out to be
unnecessary because suddenly a lot of the photography shot on film
just looked sort of mushy and muddy. It didn’t reproduce the same way,
which makes sense because the rest of the process is digital,” says
Cohen.
Big Change
Douglas Kirkland, who helped convince Cohen to do the project
digitally, sees general photography following photojournalism to an
all-digital future. “In 10 years I doubt that there’ll be very much
film being shot in still cameras. Most young photographers will get
very nervous if they have to shoot film because they won’t be able to
take a look at that image as they do it. I was hiring a new assistant
recently and one of the first things I realized was that it was no use
talking to anyone who did not have digital experience. That’s the
reality of today in this field of ours,” says Kirkland.
And Cohen, thrilled with the results from Africa, is doing his part to
shape that reality. ******* “No one who shoots on my
projects going forward will shoot anything but digital.” *********
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California, USA
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