Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >Sorry you missed Artscape this year--there's always next. I'm going to keep >a better eye out for events in Baltimore and DC and make more of an effort >to attend them; for street shooting, they're a photog's dream. Folks get >distracted enough by the events and performances that they really don't seem >to notice or care that you're taking photos; no matter how close I got (and >I got very close, at times even hitting the min. focusing distance on the >50), not one person avoided me or--worse--posed. > >I saw lots of other photogs at the event, but no one else with a Leica. I >did manage to spot an old Contax, a Ricoh, and a classic Cannon RF. But >most everyone else had SLRs. One lucky chap had a D1 slung over one >shoulder and an F5 over the other. > >Dan Dan, Yes events like Artscape are great for street photography I try to make as many as I can. Steve Annapolis