mario_henriquez Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 <p>I was recently watching the Annie Liebovitz documentary, Life Through a Lens, and noticed that she shoots with a digital Mamiya. What kind of camera does she use? Does anyone know? Thanks.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tree Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 <p>I believe she uses an RZ67.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andylynn Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 <p>I've seen photos of her with a Hasselblad, an RZ67, a Nikon digital, a Canon digital, some digital back on a Mamiya, random 35mm P&S - I think the answer is, she's Annie Leibovitz and she'll use whatever camera she darn well pleases. She puts so much thought into setting up a shot, she'd be getting brilliant photos with a Fuji Quicksnap. I have an RZ67 and I couldn't do what she does. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreas_krennmair Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 <p>I think Andrew Lynn makes a good point: good photographers will use whatever is the right tool for the job.<br> Besides that, here I found a picture of her shooting with a simple Canon EOS 1Ds: http://danielgebhart.com/blog/2008/10/17/annie-leibovitz-fotografiert-mit-canon/</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_aellis1 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 <p>In that movie one of the cameras was the Mamiya ZD back camera.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ulrik Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 <p>Saw her using a Leica M and some photos in an exhibition did show the small notches from Hasselblad V-system film backs.</p> <p>Ulrik</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 <p>Ah, but she <em><strong>started</strong> </em> (first serious camera) with the Minolta SRT-101. :)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mario_henriquez Posted October 15, 2009 Author Share Posted October 15, 2009 <p>Thanks all for your responses.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ_britt3 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 <p>Hasselblad had posters in the 1980s showing her shooting with Hasselblads..... but sounds like she uses everything. They used her for advertising.....she was standing on a wooden box because the camera was so high on a tripod. I have the poster.....</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ondebanks Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 <p>She had an RZ67 phase, at least in the early 90s...Bob Shell's 1992 book, Mamiya Medium Format Systems, includes some of her celebrity pictures, all "Copyright 1991" and all shot using an RZ67. She also seems to have had a thing for very grainy colour film...perhaps Agfachrome 1000RS, or Konica SRG 3200, which were the medium-format speedsters of the era.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur_gottschalk Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 <p>"It's not the ships, it's the men in them."</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graham_martin2 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 <p>Or, in this case, "the women".</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stwrtertbsratbs5 Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 <p>Anyone here know what brand of paint brushes Picasso used?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilkka Posted October 16, 2009 Share Posted October 16, 2009 <p>In the recent book, Annie Leibowitz at Work, she discusses her equipment. She used Mamiya RZ for a long time but seems to have now moved more to Canon 1Ds. She also used Leica M6 sometimes, but rarely it seems. She started with a Minolta SRT (or was it Pentax Spotmatic, can't remember right now), but then quite soon moved to Nikon F since that was what all photojournalists used at the time. She started with Hasselblad in medium format, for the John Lennon picture for example, but them moved to Mamiya.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mario_henriquez Posted October 16, 2009 Author Share Posted October 16, 2009 <blockquote> <p>"It's not the ships, it's the men in them."</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Anyone here know what brand of paint brushes Picasso used?</p> </blockquote> <p>You misunderstood. My question had nothing to do with "getting what she uses in order to become great;" it was simple curiosity. I saw the documentary and I couldn't tell what she used in most of the shoots that were filmed. That's all.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racerxphoto Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 <p>She uses whatever she is getting paid to do promo work for at the time.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_mckell Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 <p>I just picked up an SRT 101 today at a thrift store for one dollar and fifty cents. The build feels like I could drop it from a second story floor onto a concrete sidewalk with no problem. I'm shelving my digital camera and going back to old school. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paresh_pandit Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 <p>conclusion: lots of resources, lots of wonderful gear... :)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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