Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>In a message dated 97-12-19 09:01:03 EST, you write: > > As a devout Leicaphile and also a nature >photographer, my advice is, don't buy either of the above cameras for natur= e >photography unless by "nature" you mean to exclude wildlife. For that, tak= e >full advantage of up-to-the-minute technology: motor-drives, TTL fill flash= , >and predictive autofocus (Canon EOS or Nikon F5). These systems will also >function well for landscape and macro work. This is not to say that any of >the above types of photography are impossible with an FM2 or a Leica-M, jus= t >ever so much more technically difficult. For someone starting out, where >composition should be the paramount issue, you would very likely find yours= elf >thoroughly bogged down in and discouraged by having to work around these >technical dilemmas. > >Doc I just came in from being just outside my office as the sun had popped out= from behind the clouds for our daily 5 minute (if we are lucky!) dosage of= sunlight. We are on pilings so just below was a nicely backlit in the H2O= sea otter busy chomping away which I shot with my Tele-Elmar M on M-6= loaded with veleeta (a fake cheese sold in the US) (a joke, the camera is= loaded with Velvia). I guess I was not supposed to to do that! BTW being= very quite (M6) helps avoid spooking them, as soon as someone else came up= a spoke, the otter took a dive! Tom