Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One difference for me is that I can spend endless time studying a still photograph in a book, in the newspaper, or wherever. The image becomes engraved in my mind. With moving images, even since the advent of home video, I rarely have or take the opportunity to loop a moving image and view it over and over to the same effect. I still believe that there is a special power that attends still images which cannot be reproduced in moving images. Buzz > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Welch [SMTP:ewelch@ponyexpress.net] > Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 11:17 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: RE: [Leica] Intimacy with long lenses.... > > >The only difference. ...."one captures the moment stopped for eternity > and > >the other captures it in motion for eternity!" They have equal impact > and > >intimacy! > > But the still photo tends to be the one that ends up in our collective > memory of many events. At least that's the way my brain works. Though I > have to admit the phrase "agony of defeat" brings a moving picture to > mind. > -- > > Eric Welch > St. Joseph, MO > http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > He who laughs last thinks slowest!