Image Capture: Cameras, Lenses, and Scanners
Robert Hirsch · 2012
Garry Winogrand observed: “A photograph can only look like how the camera saw what was photographed. Or, how the camera saw the piece of time and space is responsible for how the photograph looks. Therefore, a photograph can look any way. Or, there’s no way a photograph has to look (beyond being an illusion of a literal The camera’s design is a basic part of the photographer’s visual language. Although a camera may shape the construction of an image, it is the private individual response to a situation that gives an image its power. It is up to each photographer to understand and apply a camera’s capabilities, to learn its characteristics, and to know when to use different cameras to achieve the desired results.