Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>As you were using both the R and M cameras, I initial thought you were >shooting street pics with the latter but later found that you use the >cameras interchangeably. Many of these could have been shot with both >systems. >What make you decide on which camera to use when the choice is not that >obvious? Dan: Well, I find it painful to travel with more than one system as it tends to slow me down and I have a tendency to *think* less when strapped with multiple systems and lenses around my neck. Eventually my goal is to be able to shoot the M only but in the meantime, the excellent long apo glasses of the R, macro, MLU, filters usage convenience with the R (shooting my meterless M3 with a polarizer is almost as painful as doing a job of 4x5)... will be hard for me to live without. So at Fiji the R was my primary system camera and I used M only for people and street shots. I must say that if I'm left with one camera body and one lens, I would take my M3 with the 50mm Summicron plus a Gossen LPD. I've forced myself on many occasions to take that combo only and came back with better images since I think more when so equipped. Best of lights, Gerald Hsu