I'm interested to know more about his modus operandi, -- not to copy him of course--, as I said, in some images I could see the grain, but in others there was just detail for square feet after square feet.
If you sell one image in $3,000,000.00 you can probably afford the best technology in the civilian world, and some of the military as well, plus helicopters, assistants (Jeff Koons has dozens of artists hand painting his canvases) and super computers, scanner, printers etc.
On the other side I think that he is becoming a bit too commercial and sleek looking and may be suffering the same complex as Koons: too much success --something that I have no problem with with 0 success--.
One more thing --for the godfather of my Baby Century-- I'm shopping for a 135mm with 4x5 coverage. I don't have all the money in the world, so, probably your A list will have to wait. I saw on eBay a cheap nice conditionFujinon 135mm W f/5.6 lens and bet on it, but then I went to this site where they have result of tests of lenses
http://www.hevanet.com/cperez/testing.html#100mm_thru_163mm and a Fujinon W 135mm had this results
f/11 21 30 60
f/16 33 42 54
f/22 48 54 54
the first column is center/mdl/edge and 80 is about the top.
So I went back and found ANOTHER 135mm this one for $260, so REALY expensive (for me) that is a Schneider 135mm Symmar-S F/5.6
I understand that this is the late model, --later than the one with no S-- but earlier than the APO that would be the contemporary one.
The problem now is that I'm winning the two biddings and may get two similar lenses, but someone said that sometimes the difference between two lenses of the same brand and model is bigger than that between models and brands.
So if I get the two I could compare them and sell the looser (this may be the Fujifilm, but we could organize race track horse betting to see if the poor japanese lens is eaten alive by the semi new semi old german one)
I' let you know, the schneider has 12 hours to go, the other 6 days. I may yet loose one or the two...