Re: M use

[Thomas Kachadurian <kach@freeway.net>]

Shawn:

Quite honestly I shoot whatever will pay the bills and allow me to still
spend most of my time with my 3 year-old daughter. I am working on a book
now on the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, which I have to submit
to my publisher in November. Other than that I do mostly editorial shooting
for travel and shelter publications. There is rarely fast action, and other
than occasioanl macro work, if it's shot on 35mm, I use the Leica M.

Tom 

At 11:10 PM 7/25/97 -0400, you wrote:
>> I bought my first Leica M for a personal camera, just to carry around.
Within
>>2 months I had added a second lens, and found the Leica going to work more
>>and the EOS staying at home. Now I have a complete Leica M kit and find it
>>is my #1 work camera for 35mm film. In the last three months of heavy
>>shooting I have only used my EOS 5 times, and always to mount a 300mm lens. 
>>
>>The M is pecise and simple, and for the first time in 8 years I am not
>>shoting with a camera that makes me say "If I could just have . . . "
>>
>>Tom 
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>That is quite an interesting story.  What kind of work are you into?  I 
>have always felt that the need for SLRs is highly exaggerated for much of 
>the photographs they are used for.  Of course many people are avid fans 
>of first-class SLRs like the R8 (although there don't seem to be any on 
>the LUG), but using a camera like the M6 has really made me realize how 
>many extra features and dead weight are tacked onto SLRs like my EOS 
>gear.  The M6 is a study in how little assistance a talented photographer 
>needs to make great photos.  It has gotten me out of the bad habit of 
>relying on automation and reminded me of the beauty of photography as it 
>was meant to be.
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