Any Magnum photographers using digital Leicas?

Bruce Gilden and Ian Berry have both used M9s, although I'm not sure if either still do. As Earl mentioned, Alex Webb is still using an M9 as far as I know. DAH used to use an M9, but I believe he is now primarily shooting with Fuji.

Jacob Aue Sobol, Alex Majoli and Jean Gaumy have all used digital Ms for reviews, but I don't know if they shoot with them on a regular basis.

I also believe Elliott Erwitt and Larry Towell still use film Ms.
 
Koudelka is also on the record for using (or having used extensively) digital lately: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/josef-koudelka-a-restless-eye/?_r=0

Salgado left Magnum in 1994 but still counts, I should think. He used digital for his latest project.

I'd be surprised if most of them don't use digital for at least a portion of what they do.



EDIT: Sorry, I misread, your question was for digital Leicas, not just digital... Koudelka used a specially modified Leica S2, as for Salgado I think he used a digital Pentax 645 (I could be wrong).

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telenous said:
EDIT: Sorry, I misread, your question was for digital Leicas, not just digital... Koudelka used a specially modified Leica S2, as for Salgado I think he used a digital Pentax 645 (I could be wrong).

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Salgado used a film Pentax 645 and a Canon DSLR on his Genesis project. Really interesting to see or look at the exhibition at ICP to try and see the differences in IQ between analog and digital even on huge prints. A great master who also has the support of a great lab. Really hard to distinuish, but there are small differences.

Cal
 
Not sure whether Ralph Gibson is Magnum, but he does shoot a Monochrom.

The real question is though, 'what should it matter to me?'

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johannielscom said:
Not sure whether Ralph Gibson is Magnum
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He shortly was decades ago.

robert blu said:
Yes, he did. I read something about this process a few months ago. Sorry buy I can't find the original informations.

robert
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Peter Turnley also uses the process, this can be seen here in the video (already posted by other RFFers long ago but you might enjoy it, though).

Actually it's the great guys being printers at "Picto" who put up the technique for photographers using digital cameras for their B&W work. Seems to produce beautiful results.
 
Salgado was still using film and a pentax 645 when commencing his "Genesis" project. Around 2008 or 2009 he started the transition to digital using canon full frame equipment.
As a personal choice and to ensure consistency between the different rendition the two mediums give, he has adopted a traditional printing process through negatives exposed thorugh a digital film recorder.
The quality of the prints is very high, if you pay attention, at the exhibition you can still spot the difference between prints coming from film and digital.
My feeling is that also the original film images have been first scanned and processed before being transferred back to negative
 
emmef2 said:
Salgado was still using film and a pentax 645 when commencing his "Genesis" project. Around 2008 or 2009 he started the transition to digital using canon full frame equipment.
As a personal choice and to ensure consistency between the different rendition the two mediums give, he has adopted a traditional printing process through negatives exposed thorugh a digital film recorder.
The quality of the prints is very high, if you pay attention, at the exhibition you can still spot the difference between prints coming from film and digital.
My feeling is that also the original film images have been first scanned and processed before being transferred back to negative
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The digital negatives created for wet printing this show were 4x5.

Cal
 
darkosaric1234567890 said:
Peter Turnley is a Magnum member?
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After having responded to Johan about whether Ralph Gibson had been a Magnum member I then quoted Peter Turnley (click) as a subsidiary answer to Robert's question about making large format negatives off B&W digital files, because it's to be seen in the video I dropped a link of.

So : no he isn't, but this wasn't the point.
 
Highway 61, FYI, Ralph Gibson was never a member of Magnum. He briefly worked in their office when he was invited by Robert Frank to work on the making of his film "Me and My Brother".
 
Highway 61 said:
After having responded to Johan about whether Ralph Gibson had been a Magnum member I then quoted Peter Turnley as a subsidiary answer to Robert's question about making large format negatives off B&W digital files, because it's to be seen in the video I dropped a link of.

No he isn't, but this wasn't the point.
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I see, thanks :), I was confused for a moment. I met Peter Turnley last year on Paris photo (great guy btw), and he did have digital Leica with him while signing the book "French kiss".
 
kbg32 said:
Highway 61, FYI, Ralph Gibson was never a member of Magnum. He briefly worked in their office when he was invited by Robert Frank to work on the making of his film "Me and My Brother".
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Thank you for clarifying ! :)

darkosaric1234567890 said:
I see, thanks :), I was confused for a moment. I met Peter Turnley last year on Paris photo (great guy btw), and he did have digital Leica with him while signing the book "French kiss".
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Great meeting for sure ! Yes he looks to be a very nice guy... :)
I'd like to know the name of the "Picto" printer we see in the video. Chances are, that this is the same guy making prints for Salgado, using the same process.
 
Whatever he used, that Salgado show at ICP is pretty mind blowing. I highly recommend popping in there if you are in New York.

The quality of the prints is outstanding. I didn't play the guess which is digital and which is analog game but nothing jumped out at me. It has a very consistent look and feel.

The landscapes were just magnificent.
 
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