Re: [Leica] Re: Capa and the Wide Angle Lens

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Gee golly gosh! You asked people to hold on and not move? Sounds
suspiciously like a set-up to me! I hope the documentarian's Procedure
Police don't get wind of this, or there'll be Hell to pay ( not to mention a
long drawn out thread!)
:o)~
Dan ( I couldn't do the laying on the floor bit- as big as I am, they'd
start to line up thinking I was a ride or sumpin')

- -----Original Message-----
From: D.Saylan <DenizSaylan.Foto@t-online.de>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 11:46 AM
Subject: [Leica] Re: Capa and the Wide Angle Lens


>Hi Marc,
>
>it is a personal thing to let people get close. When somebody doesnīt
>like it, so normaly the others respect that. I do. You canīt say that
>wide angle is always better than tele lens, but for my way of
>photography, I like the wide angle perspective more. The other thing is,
>that most of the people let me get close to them, maybe because I have
>something symphatetic on me. Iīm shure YOU would let me get close, too.
>I always ask, at least with a unmisunderstandable look to my objekt.
>I did that also in former times, when I worked with Nikon F2 and F3, but
>I had often problems, because people feel offended. Since I work with my
>Leica M, I have seldom any problems. I think, it has something to do
>with the different look of the cameras. The Nikon is huge and offensive,
>especially when you have the motordrive on it. The Leica M looks tiny
>and soft and defensive. I doesnīt look lika a professional tool and
>peple let me work without paying attention seriously. Just at Friday I
>was in a Lunapark, doing some photo essay on the atmosphere of that
>park. I was sometimes laying on the flor in the middle of the crowd. The
>people were just amused and let me take pictures, very close of course
>and helped me even when I asked them to hold on and not to move and so
>on...
>
>But it is always a special kind of communication between the
>photographer and the     subject.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Deniz
>