Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brougham jotted down the following: > > Why do you want an SLR for color? Just curious. > It's more a function of type and subject matter, than a function of the camera type itself. I was indistinct in my earlier message. I use the M cameras to take pictures of people and places, trying to approximate the classic photojournalistic style. To me, such pictures work better as B&W, mainly because I find it hard to do in colour, but partly because I simply equate B&W photographs with the genre -- and I have no desire to break out of the genre (in fact, rather the opposite! ;) The SLR, however, I intend to use for macro and tele work. Here the subject matter is product shots (for eBay, for example), cityscapes just after sundown (during the "blue hour") or landscape/nature work. At least the former has to be in colour, while the other two can be effective in B&W too. But, I'd like to shoot those subjects predominantly with colour stock. Finally, and this is the least well articulated reason, I feel that there is something about the way in which you compose and arrange the world through the two different types of viewfinder (M vs. R) that lends itself to B&W and colour photography respectively. Call me quirky. M. - -- Martin Howard | Armored with good intentions and Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | ignorance, one is impregnable to email: howard.390@osu.edu | learning. www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------