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In the last Camera Matters thread, the question came up about whether a pro photographer ever won an award with a simple camera. I stumbled upon an example today: According to the New York Times, "..a photo of Al Gore on the stump that Mr. [David] Burnett took with a Holga won a top prize at the 2001 White House News Photographers' Association's Eyes of History contest."

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Here is David Burnett's Holga Eye gallery .

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Interesting picture and link - I don't think there is anything wrong with cheap cameras. IHMO - :-)
Autonerd said:
In the last Camera Matters thread, the question came up about whether a pro photographer ever won an award with a simple camera. I stumbled upon an example today: According to the New York Times, "..a photo of Al Gore on the stump that Mr. [David] Burnett took with a Holga won a top prize at the 2001 White House News Photographers' Association's Eyes of History contest."

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Here is David Burnett's Holga Eye gallery .
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Lensmate said:
Autonerd said:
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Poor image! How that even won anything is a testament to low judging standards!

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It won because it was taken with a Holga. Had it been taken with a 'regular' camera, it wouldn't have won anything. There's something to be gleaned from that, methinks.

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Biggs23 said:
Lensmate said:
Autonerd said:
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Poor image! How that even won anything is a testament to low judging standards!

-M
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It won because it was taken with a Holga. Had it been taken with a 'regular' camera, it wouldn't have won anything. There's something to be gleaned from that, methinks.
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Something as simple as reframing the speaker before releasing the shutter, even though it is a Holga, would have had more impact.

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Do pinhole cameras count as cheap?

Here are 3 winners from a pinhole photography competition. Not sure the date.

www.artlimited.net

Pinhole Photography competition

A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens but with a tiny aperture, a pinhole – effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through the aperture and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the…
www.artlimited.net www.artlimited.net
 
Rambow said:
So....99% of all cameras made before the year 2000?

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those cameras might be simple now but were not at all simple then and definately not cheap.

What you have there is the OM2 , one of the most advanced system cameras at the time. In 1980 it sold for $380 with a standard 50mm 1.8. That is about $1250 now.
 
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Overrank said:
Eamonn McCabe won News Photographer of the Year for photos some of which were taken with a compact camera (Canon SureShot ?) at the Heysel Stadium Disaster ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ar...hing-heysel-football-disaster-changed-my-life - Warning: contains distressing images ) although he has said that it was an award he wished he’d never won.
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My brother was there but not where the incident happened.

BTW, read the sign (the same was repeated in Italian on the other side)



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It is probably due to the 99% human Genome compatibility between monkeys and humans.

I would like to see a Genome mapping of some photographers that post to here.
 
I just bought a Canon Elan II3 w/ eye AF and Tamron 28-200mm AF in mint condition today for $30(US) at a flea market. Was that camera a good buy(cheap)?
 
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