[Article] Alex Majoli points and shoots


Bravia

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In 2003, Magnum photographer Alex Majoli shot some big stories for Newsweek magazine.

He spent a month in China shooting documentary images of daily life. He was in Congo for two weeks and Iraq for almost two months. In those two places he was shooting war.

Majoli's images for all three stories drew rave notices, and they earned him some of photojournalism's most prestigious awards in 2004, including the U.S. National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism Magazine Photographer of the Year Award and the U.S. Overseas Press Club's Feature Photography Award.

It would seem reasonable to guess that all that award-winning work in remote and frequently dangerous places must have been shot with big, fast, bulletproof pro SLR cameras. But in fact, Majoli shot every frame with Olympus C-5050 digital point-and-shoots -- the same camera your snap happy Uncle Maury takes to Disney World.

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cheh... i thot you're going to tell us he uses a Holga with the 4 color flash....bwhahahha... thanks for sharing.
 

hhmm, it even convinces me more that high end equipment doesn't necessarily translate to beautiful photos..
Thanks for sharing! anyway, that camera has some nice features, like the f/1.8 lens..