ChatGPT listed 20 greatest photographers of all time as well as the cameras and focal lengths they mainly use (a lot of Leicas on the list)

By LR admin | Published: August 2, 2023

ChatGPT listed the 20 greatest photographers of all time as well as the cameras and focal lengths they mainly use:

All Photographers

Ansel Adams: Large Format view camera, particularly the Wisner ‘Technical’ Field 4×5. He often used lenses of various focal lengths.
Richard Avedon: Deardorff 8×10 View Camera. Avedon often used a 360mm lens.
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Leica 35mm with a 50mm lens.
Dorothea Lange: Graflex Series D, with likely a variety of focal lengths given her work’s diverse nature.
Robert Capa: Contax II, typically with a 50mm lens.
Annie Leibovitz: Used various cameras throughout her career, including a Mamiya RZ67 with a 110mm lens.
Steve McCurry: Nikon F6, typically with a 28-70mm lens.
Diane Arbus: Rolleiflex, with an 80mm lens.
Robert Doisneau: Leica IIIc with a 50mm lens.
David Bailey: Various cameras including the Pentax 67 with 105mm lens.
Elliott Erwitt: Leica M3 with 50mm lens.
Brassaï: Voigtländer Bergheil, with variable focal lengths.
Walker Evans: Large Format view camera, typically with a 300mm lens.
Robert Frank: Leica M with a 50mm lens.
Cindy Sherman: Hasselblad 500 C/M with an 80mm lens.
Edward Weston: Large Format 8×10 view camera, with a variety of lenses.
Andreas Gursky: Large Format view camera with various lenses.
Garry Winogrand: Leica M4 with 28mm lens.
Irving Penn: Rolleiflex with an 80mm lens.
Martin Parr: Canon EOS 5D Mark III with a 50mm lens.

Street Photographers

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Leica 35mm with a 50mm lens.
Robert Doisneau: Leica IIIc with a 50mm lens.
Elliott Erwitt: Leica M3 with 50mm lens.
Garry Winogrand: Leica M4 with 28mm lens.
Joel Meyerowitz: Used a Leica M and 35mm lens early in his career, and later medium format cameras.
Bruce Gilden: Leica M6 with 28mm lens and a flash.
Saul Leiter: Leica M3 with a 50mm or 90mm lens.
Vivian Maier: Rolleiflex with an 80mm lens.
Lee Friedlander: Leica M cameras with a 35mm lens.
Martin Parr: Plaubel Makina 670, and more recently, Canon EOS 5D Mark III with a 50mm lens.
Daidō Moriyama: Compact cameras such as Ricoh GR series with a 28mm lens.
Alex Webb: Leica M cameras with 35mm and 50mm lenses.
Trent Parke: Leica MP with a 28mm lens.
William Klein: Wide-angle lenses on rangefinder cameras.
Helen Levitt: Leica IIIc with a 50mm lens.
Diane Arbus: Rolleiflex, with an 80mm lens.
Raghubir Singh: Leica M3 with a 35mm lens.
Mary Ellen Mark: Leica M cameras with a 35mm lens.
Andre Kertesz: Leica IIIc with a 50mm lens.
Richard Kalvar: Leica M4 with a 35mm lens.

Leica Photographers

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Leica 35mm with a 50mm lens.
Robert Doisneau: Leica IIIc with a 50mm lens.
Elliott Erwitt: Leica M3 with 50mm lens.
Garry Winogrand: Leica M4 with 28mm lens.
Joel Meyerowitz: Used a Leica M and 35mm lens early in his career.
Bruce Gilden: Leica M6 with 28mm lens and a flash.
Saul Leiter: Leica M3 with a 50mm or 90mm lens.
Lee Friedlander: Leica M cameras with a 35mm lens.
Martin Parr: Has used a Leica M7 with a 35mm lens.
Daidō Moriyama: Has used Leica cameras, like the Leica M Monochrom, with wide-angle lenses.
Alex Webb: Leica M cameras with 35mm and 50mm lenses.
Trent Parke: Leica MP with a 28mm lens.
Helen Levitt: Leica IIIc with a 50mm lens.
Raghubir Singh: Leica M3 with a 35mm lens.
Mary Ellen Mark: Leica M cameras with a 35mm lens.
Andre Kertesz: Leica IIIc with a 50mm lens.
Richard Kalvar: Leica M4 with a 35mm lens.
Rene Burri: Leica M cameras with 50mm and 28mm lenses.
Sebastião Salgado: Leica R4 and Leica M7 with 28mm, 35mm, and 50mm lenses.
Fan Ho: Leica IIIc with a 50mm lens.

The Leica pictures and text in this blog post are all generated by AI