Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Mike, Ted and Tina for the answers. The differences in perspective here is usually enlightening, and often amusing. My question was part utilty and part practicality of carrying multiple cameras. I have a hard time seeing myself decked out like a leica christmas tree ready to plunder. As I haven't walked around with more than two cameras at a time, I wondered at the advantages. When using two, one is usually loaded color, the other B/W. Though I do all my processing these days digitally and could easily work a color shot as B/W, I prefer to think of an image as one or the other and record it on an appropriate film. Other than inside/outside problems, a roll usually doesn't last long enough for the light to change drastically; if it does, I can reload. Someone who is shooting at a fixed location can take a steamer trunk full of equipment to have precisely the proper combination of film and lens (format, what have you). From what I understand about Tina's work, she needs mobility. This may be what most intriqued me, because what I do is mostly mobile as well. I don't even like a small bag if I can avoid it. I have the luxury of not shooting to please an art director or editor. My shots are opportunistic, and I certainly have missed capturing images on film because I didn't have, for example, a 180 with me at the time, or possibly the camera to mount it. Some images are burned in memory that I do wish were likewise burned on film, but I'm the only one that realises the loss. Would I have been there anyway if I had full kit in tow? I can easily see myself as a camera collector (not investor, they all get carried and used). I hope I wasn't just looking for an excuse to buy more bodies... - -- Tim Spragens http://www.borderless-photos.com