Cameras the Masters used

patois · Dec 11, 2010

I once bought a super awesome camera because someone far cooler than I owned one. As it happens, my results are ok but not as awesome as his because he is far cooler and goes to more interesting locations than I do. It wasn't the camera, it was him.

Curt · Dec 11, 2010

Name one photographer who used a 645 camera.

lxdude · Dec 11, 2010

Well, the easy answer to your,ahem, curt question is Sebastiao Salgado.

Curt · Dec 11, 2010

http://pdngallery.com/legends/legends10/

"I have used Kodak films, always, from the start of my life in photography. Kodak film is a part of my photography."
- Sebastião Salgado

Excellent, I wasn't aware that he used that format. His work is simply amazing.

Curt

ic-racer · Dec 11, 2010

Curt said:
Name one photographer who used a 645 camera.

Ray Mortenson. Check out Meadowland. (NY: Lustrum Press, 1983) it will make you want to go out and get a 645 if you don't have one already.

ic-racer · Dec 11, 2010

Andy Warhol: Minox EL (35mm), Polaroid Big Shot
Robert Capa: Contax II
Susan Meiselas: Leica
John Sexton: Linhof Technika 4x5
Joel Peter Witkin: Rollieflex TLR
Lucas Samaras: SX-70
Bill Owens: Brooks Veriwide
John Szarkowskii: Graphic View (monorail)
Tod Papageorge: Fujica 6x9 Rangefinder
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Plaubel Peco 5×7, Linhof Technica 6×9
Jeff Bridges: Widelux
Nancy Rexroth: Diana
Kenneth Snelson:16" Cirkut camera
James Alinder: 150 degree Panorama camera (anyone know brand?), Kodak Instamatic, Diana
Duane Michals: Nikon F
Robert Adams: Pentax 6x7 SLR
O Winston Link: Graphic View (monorail)

mjs · Dec 11, 2010

patois said:
I once bought a super awesome camera because someone far cooler than I owned one. As it happens, my results are ok but not as awesome as his because he is far cooler and goes to more interesting locations than I do. It wasn't the camera, it was him.

You haven't explored all of the variables! It might have been the film, or the lens, or the shutter release! Tripods are important; I read it somewhere.

Then there's the developer, the stop bath, the fix technique and wash. Paper? Developer (again!) and stop/fix/wash.

Yeah, we get hung up on the widgetry sometimes. I dream of what it would be like to win the lottery sometimes, too, but that doesn't mean I'll go out and buy a lottery ticket (and sometimes, even understanding the odds, doesn't mean I won't go buy one!) Sometimes I hear the slick sound of a Copal shutter in my sleep, and I smile. Gotta have some fun every once in a while!

Mike

2F/2F · Dec 12, 2010

Curt said:
Name one photographer who used a 645 camera.

1. myself

extra credit:

2. Eugenia
3. Art
4. Randall
5. Sara
6. Carol
7. the school where I work

prado333 · Dec 12, 2010

Raymond Depardon : leica, alpa , and a ebony 8x10
Luc delahaye: linhof 612 and alpa
Michael kenna: Hasselblad
Richard Avedon : Rolleiflex, hasselblad , Deardoff and Sinar p 8x10
Irving Penn : Rolleiflex , Banquet Cameras
Mary Ellen Mark : leica m , Hasselblad , Mamiya 7, Linhof Technika,
Helmut Newton: Hasselblad , Rolleiflex
Todd Hido; Pentax 67
Michael Thompson : pentax 67
Robert Mapplethorpe: polaroid, Hasselblad
Joel Sternfeld: Wista 8x10, Phillips 8x10
Richard Misrach ; 8x10 Camera
Lee Friedlander : Actually a Hasselblad 903swc

removed account4 · Dec 12, 2010

tony lockerbie said:
I was just looking at an old advertisement which had 'Gene Smith using, and extolling the virtues of, an Olympus Pen F. I beleive that other famous shooter, John Nanian also uses a Pen F from time to time!

thanks tony

i do love half frame!
john

lxdude · Dec 12, 2010

Curt said:
Name one photographer who used a 645 camera.

Oh yeah, I forgot: me. Still do, as a matter of fact.

MattKing · Dec 12, 2010

Curt said:
Name one photographer who used a 645 camera.

Cheryl Jacobs Nicolai seems to get pretty good results from 645 :

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sage · Dec 13, 2010

Obviously the key is to find a camera no 'master' has made famous so that you can carve your own niche with it.

Steve Smith · Dec 13, 2010

2F/2F said:
I don't really associate a certain camera with any of my personal favorites.

I wouldn't normally either. However, I have recently become aware of the work of John Gay, a German immigrant to the UK in the 1930s. He predominantly used a Rolleiflex and his pictures of England from the 1930s to the 1970s are some of the best pictures I have ever seen and are proof that simple equipment is all that is needed.

I suppose the fact that I have only seen them presented in the square format reinforces my association of him with the Rolleiflex. If they were cropped to a rectangle I think it would not have stuck in my mind.

Steve.

Pupfish · Dec 19, 2010

Aaron Siskind and Laura Gilpin each used a Meridian 45B at some point in their long respective careers.

j-dogg · Dec 19, 2010

sage said:
Obviously the key is to find a camera no 'master' has made famous so that you can carve your own niche with it.

I'm gonna put the Nikkormat on the spotlight baby I'll remember APUG when I make the cover of National Geographic!!!!!!!!!! YEAH BOY!!!!

aluminumstudios · Dec 21, 2010

Moriyama Daido - a well respected and known Japanese photographer, has done a lot of work with various point-n-shoot cameras, many of which he has been given or borrowed according an short documentary piece I saw about him.

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