Woodman Forum - chat with pierre woodman

Dear Pierre

Woud you tell me - do you always use the digital photo or use film sometime. And what marks of cameras and lenses do you prefer?

Mike Denissoff

I started photo at 9 years old and begin digital in November 2005 with Canon Eos 5 D.
From 1984 I always used Canon ( excepted once I used a Nikon but this is something so incroyable and very special that I keep for my book ) and last month I bought the new 7D.

I like vintage techinic - 72' Hasselblad 500C and 68'Pentax Spotmatic. Sometimes I use Soviet Large Format Camera 13X18 of 1940.

From digital I use Leica Digilux3 and Olympus. One month ago I purchased tele Olympus 70-300 ideal thing for foto hunt)))

By the way what was your first camera?

ahahah funny but a Russian one called Lubitel...

PW

bravo))) Soviet clon of Voightlander Brilliant))) I must buy Lubitel too and say to everyone - This is first camera of Pierre Woodman)))

What model of Lubitel? 166?

Yes 166, I'll explain all details in my book but this with that camera that I begin to learn photo in 1972 !!!

PW

I wanted to buy Lubitel but I coud not define how to adjust the focus in this camera. Do you still use your Lubitel sometimes?)))

No I stopped when I was 14 year old !

PW

Salut, Pierre, j'suis un grand admirateur de ta succes story... quel courage d'avoir pu exercer ton talent un peu partout dans le monde... J'aimerai te demander un conseil technique...tu utilises quoi comme matos pour les Set Photo (pour mettre en valeur les modeles) , un reflex avec un simple flash cobra ou du moyen format avec plusieurs boites a lumière?

encore merci pr ta carrière t'as mis grand coup de balais de le monde X depuis tes débuts en Directeur de casting chez VMD fin 80 début 90.