Which Magnum Photographers use mostly digital cameras

[Benjamin]

Trent Parke. Though I'm not sure he still uses Mamiya 7 now.

I think a lot of his work was shot on 6x9, so it may well have been a Fuji?

 

[jsrockit]

I believe the bulk of their income is from giving workshops etc.

But they have to make a decent living I would imagine.

 

[Gareth67]

Well, both Alex Webb and David Alan Harvey are using M9s (although David uses a Nikon DSLR and I think a GF1 as well)

 

[Gareth67]

Alex Webb did a shoot for LFI magazine a couple of issues ago with his M9 - there's an interview with him. I did a workshop with him and his wife 2 months ago - I think it's probably fair to say he's reluctantly switched to digital as his film choices dried up.

Fantastic workshop, incidentally - worth keeping an eye out for another one.

I think Phillip Jones Griffiths died a few years ago...

 

[thirtyfivefifty]

Martin Parr shoots with a Canon 5D Mark II last time I checked.

 

[boomguy57]

Aren't we at the point now where digital is the accepted "normal" in virtually all types of still photography? Shouldn't the title of the post be asking who still uses film?

This isn't to say one is better than the other, it just seems the point is past where we have "cameras" and "digital cameras"; I'd argue we now have "cameras" and "film cameras".

Just my thoughts on it 🙂

 

[muser53]

Digital, fidgital, analog whatever...remember what Mr Natural said, "Use the right tool for the job."

 

[Araakii]

Martin Parr shoots with a Canon 5D Mark II last time I checked.

Yes. I watched his latest video.

 

[kokoshawnuff]

But they have to make a decent living I would imagine.

Hard to imagine any are hurting for work--should they ever want it.

 

[jsrockit]

Aren't we at the point now where digital is the accepted "normal" in virtually all types of still photography? Shouldn't the title of the post be asking who still uses film?

This is RFF... where film is king and digital is the enemy! 😱 😀

 

[furcafe]

Erwitt uses a variety of cameras, depending on the job, including Canon dSLRs.

I think Elliott Erwitt and Larry Towell are using b&w film.

 

[furcafe]

Yes, reluctant is the word. At a talk he gave last year, he mentioned that he found digital files to be "thin" compared to his beloved Kodachrome, but that he was working w/his assistant(s) to learn how to post-process them to make them more film-like.

Alex Webb did a shoot for LFI magazine a couple of issues ago with his M9 - there's an interview with him. I did a workshop with him and his wife 2 months ago - I think it's probably fair to say he's reluctantly switched to digital as his film choices dried up.

 

[johannielscom]

Coining here:

digital vs. traditional photography.


Many people hate 'analog' while others cannot imagine what it means. Just using 'photography vs digital photography' gets people confused, it's the same thing, right?

Traditional photography is a term anyone can relate to if it's used in conjunction with digital photography.

 

[furcafe]

I know that Erwitt uses Canon dSLRs for assignment work. I met him back in 2008 when he was down here covering the inauguration for Newsweek & he was using a brand-new 5D, Mark II; I didn't recognize the lens (Canon stuff all looks the same to me), but I think was a zoom (L? it was white).

This clip is from 2007. I know that Erwitt used Canon SLR film cameras for his annual report and ad work. He also used larger format cameras at times. It wouldn't suprise me if he was using digital gear for his current ad work, as that would be what agencies would request.

For his personal photography, and much of what Magnum would archive, I think he's still shooting b+w film. This is a fairly common thing these days for photographers who work in both commercial and noncommercial worlds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh5p5Sx5qZg&feature=related

 

[Bob Michaels]

Forget the camera, I want to know what f-stop and shutter speed they use so I can be like them.

 

[maciejgapinski]

I had a look at the postcardsfromamerica tumblr exifs and found as follows:

Alex Webb and Bruce Gilden - M9
Jim Goldberg - S2
Alec Soth - Hasselblad H4D-40
Paolo Pellegrin - 5dM3
Martin Parr and Susan Meiselas - 5dM2
Larry Towell - 7D

 

[MartinP]

Film users:

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Philip Jones Griffiths

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Unfortunately I suspect he is no longer a film-user, as he died five years ago.

I can recommend his Vietnam Inc, for those curious about what he did with film.

 

[Deep Fried]

I had a look at the postcardsfromamerica tumblr exifs and found as follows:

Alex Webb and Bruce Gilden - M9
Jim Goldberg - S2
Alec Soth - Hasselblad H4D-40
Paolo Pellegrin - 5dM3
Martin Parr and Susan Meiselas - 5dM2
Larry Towell - 7D

That's funny. I thought I read a member here post in an anti digital thread with a link to the postcards series proclaiming how good the film looked. i could be very wrong, I do have a terrible memory. Anyways, it is very interesting. That series does not have a 'digital' look, and yet it is.

 

[jsrockit]

I had a look at the postcardsfromamerica tumblr exifs and found as follows:

Alex Webb and Bruce Gilden - M9
Jim Goldberg - S2
Alec Soth - Hasselblad H4D-40
Paolo Pellegrin - 5dM3
Martin Parr and Susan Meiselas - 5dM2
Larry Towell - 7D

Damn, didn't realize that Alec Soth and Jim Goldberg were raking in the duckets to afford those monsters.

 

[Araakii]

Damn, didn't realize that Alec Soth and Jim Goldberg were raking in the duckets to afford those monsters.

Alec Soth has been shooting with the digital back for a while. After seeing his photos, I am no longer against digital backs, LOL. One day I will get one myself.