Best Nikon color photographers

[pierods]

Can you point me to some of the very best film photograpers using Nikon on color film? Color only please.
I will start the list, although I think he basically only used positive film:

1 Galen Rowell

 

[Franswa]

Steve McCurry..

 

[GregY]

Can you point me to some of the very best film photograpers using Nikon on color film? Color only please.
I will start the list, although I think he basically only used positive film:

1 Galen Rowell

Galen Rowell primarily used transparency film.
There were many top notch colour photographers using Nikon & working for National Geographic.
Steve McCurry....
Jim Brandenberg

 

[pierods]

Galen Rowell primarily used transparency film.
There were many top notch colour photographers using Nikon & working for National Geographic for example.

What is a transparency film?
Do you remember some names?

 

[GregY]

What is a transparency film?
Do you remember some names?

transparency film = slide film (like kodachrome as an example)

 

[Andreas Thaler]

Can you point me to some of the very best film photograpers using Nikon on color film? Color only please.
I will start the list, although I think he basically only used positive film:

1 Galen Rowell

What do you understand by “best photographers”?

 

[Pieter12]

it's not the camera...

 

[Paul Howell]

Larry Burrows did some of the best color work during the Vietnam war, he shot with both Kodachrome and Ektachrome. Steve McCurry who shot the Girl with Green Eyes for Nat Geo used Kodachrome. Kodacrhome is no longer made and old rolls can not longer be processed as color film. Rowland Scherman shot Bob Dylan with a Nikon with 200mm lens on Kktachrome high speed.

 

[pentaxuser]

Can you point me to some of the very best film photograpers using Nikon on color film? Color only please.
I will start the list, although I think he basically only used positive film:

1 Galen Rowell

By the present tense "using" do you mean still using colour film currently or used (as in the past) I had heard that for instance Steve McCurry had switched to digital a good number of years ago

pentaxuser

 

[GregY]

What do you understand by “best photographers”?

That really is a good question Andreas.
In general i'm not a huge colour photography fan. Galen Rowell was widely published and gained renown IMO because he photographed adventure that most people don't experience. As a photographer, of mountains he certainly is not in the same class as Vittorio Sella, Bradford Washburn or Ansel Adams. Rowell's highly saturated images almost pre-saged the HD stylings of the digital era.
As far as colour photographers Elliott Porter and any number of photographers working with the dye-transfer process produced more compelling work.

 

[Alex Benjamin]

Annie Leibovitz and her Nikon, 1975. She shot both colour and black and white back then. Don't know which colour film she used.

 

[MattKing]

Fred Herzog:

Courtesy of his friend, Bruce Stewart.
Although he used a variety of other cameras as well. And mostly Kodachrome.
In case you are not familiar with Fred Herzog: https://www.equinoxgallery.com/our-artists/fred-herzog/

 

[pentaxuser]

Fred Herzog - there just a touch of the heftier brother of Robert Redford in the pics - don't you think, Matt?

pentaxuser

 

[Alex Benjamin]

Fred Herzog - there just a touch of the heftier brother of Robert Redford in the pics - don't you think, Matt?

pentaxuser

I was thinking James Garner in The Rockford Files .

 

[bdial]

Jay Maisel

 

[Hassasin]

Does this mean if a favorite photographer is not a Nikon man, one needs to switch cameras, otherwise it ain't ever gonna work ?

Or is it a social experiment, only to tell cameras don't make a photograph ?

 

[koraks]

Can you point me to some of the very best film photograpers using Nikon on color film?

Then I read the title, I thought this was going to be about digital since in that domain it really matters in terms of color rendition what kind of camera is used. For film, there's a marginal influence of lenses on color rendition, but most of the big-brand quality lenses render fairly neutrally.

Anyway, I was going to say "Harry Gruyaert", buuuttt.....in a documentary he was shown using a digital EOS camera, so not Nikon. And frankly I don't know what camera brand he used back when he shot Kodachrome, nor does Magnum or anyone else seem to believe it's relevant to mention it. So maybe it's not relevant after all.

 

[logan2z]

Anyway, I was going to say "Harry Gruyaert", buuuttt.....in a documentary he was shown using a digital EOS camera, so not Nikon. And frankly I don't know what camera brand he used back when he shot Kodachrome, nor does Magnum or anyone else seem to believe it's relevant to mention it. So maybe it's not relevant after all.

From what I’ve read, he shot with a Leica M6.

 

[koraks]

Ah, we could have known of course from the typical Leica colors.

 

[Andreas Thaler]

Ah, we could have known of course from the typical Leica colors.

Keyword color reproduction of the lenses ...

 

[koraks]

For the record, my comment was facetious. I think any human would be hard-pressed to recognize the color reproduction characteristic of a particular brand of lenses based on a regular body of work such as of the photographer I mentioned. Or, put simply: you wouldn't be able to tell whether he used Leica, Nikon, Canon etc. from looking at the slides.

 

[pentaxuser]

Ah, we could have known of course from the typical Leica colors.

Plus the Leica glow surely?

pentaxuser

 

[pentaxuser]

No-one has really asked what the OP's purpose is in asking the question, have they? Andeas might have come closest to doing so when he asked what the OP understood to be the best photographers which I assume to be: What defines a photographer to put him into the "best " category

So can I ask:"pierods can you give us more details, if you are willing, on why Nikon film cameras in association with colour film?

pentaxuser

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

I'm with Matt. Fred Herzog.

 

[Don_ih]

Paul Simon.

Kodachrome.