RE: [Leica] AF, a FAD? Jeeze...It's not that hard...

["dan states" <dstate1@hotmail.com>]

Wow!  You sound angry.  By the way, I had to trade in the horse and buggy.  
I kept getting held up at the toll booths

>
> >Diatribe Dan states wrote: <edited>
> >It's a dangerous crutch.  Yank that safety net from most modern snap
> >shooters and they are like beached whales.
> >
> >Additionally, the isolation from effort that automation gives puts a
>blanket
> >of ignorance over the process of photograpy.
> >
> >Many modern users don't seem to want to take the time or effort needed to
> >master their craft.  It is to their own disadvantage.
> >
> >I do not recognize an upturn in the quality or level of meaning of
> >photography in general since the advent of full automation.  Indeed the
> >opposite seems to be the case.  Once any snapshooter can produce results
> >that are at least 'technically' proficient you put the future  of
> >photography in the hands of people who's motives are less art and more
> >profit.
> >
> >Diatribe over... Dan
>
>Nonsense, if the resulting photograph is excellent no one cares if it were
>artistically created with a manual settings camera, or done via an AF SLR,
>or for that matter a P&S.
>
>As to labeling those that use technology "beached whales out of a safety
>net" that is a large assumption on your part.  I hope it makes you feel
>better than you have justified your MF dinosaur.  Should I assume from your
>comment that the thousands of photojournalists and many Nat Geo photogs 
>that
>use AF SLRs are simply poor fools and lousy photographers?  However,
>according to your logic if they were using a Leica MF camera they would be
>good photographers, correct?  Interesting.  BTW, do you use drive a car or
>continue to ignore technology and use a horse and buggy?
>
>Peter K


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