RE: [Leica] Rules + new HUMAN TRAFFIC images (kind of) WAS Dogme95 etc

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

Cool pix Johnny.

What kind of setup where you using for the open flash with the Rollei?

Do you think you could make it work with the Super?

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Johnny
> Deadman
> Sent: January 4, 2001 8:56 PM
> To: LUG
> Subject: [Leica] Rules + new HUMAN TRAFFIC images (kind of) WAS Dogme95
> etc
>
>
> on 4/1/01 9:08 pm, Leica Users digest at
> owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us wrote:
>
> > Well, not exactly.  Slow speed color film for candid street
> work?  Not all
> > that common.  Input analogue, output digital?  Nothing beautiful?  I
> > wouldn't say that these are precisely standard Leica practices.
>  Certainly
> > not for years:  digital output wasn't all that tempting years ago.
> >
> > Anyway, the rules that *do* apply to years of Leica practice
> are not out of
> > place.  (If you check out the Dogme95 manifesto, you'll find
> rules that have
> > applied for years to documentary and independent film work:  handheld
> > camera, authentic locations and props, no genre work, etc.)
> What is unusual
> > - -- I'm not suggesting unique -- is photography that adheres
> to *all ten* of
> > these dicta.
> >
> > If you find, however, that you've already been doing this for years,
> > congratulations:  you're a member of this elite group, whether
> you want to
> > be or not!
>
> I quite liked these rules. The difference from Dogme95 is that D95 rules
> were formulated specifically to make filmmakers concentrate on what the
> scribblers considered 'important'... to level the playing field,
> mitigating
> against visual operatics etc. In terms of a CameraDogma I'd say
> it would be
> truer to the Lars van Trier spirit to insist that all developing
> be done at
> the corner store, everyone shoot with the cheapest manual camera
> they owned,
> using widely available (say 200 or 400) color negative film,
> within one mile
> of their home etc etc. The idea is to send a message that 'you
> can do this'.
>
> Here are some images that almost conform to this: shot with a R**eiflex on
> color neg in London just before Xmas. They only diverge in that they use
> open flash. The camera cost less than a new baseplate for my M4-P.
>
>     http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/htrevisited/index.html
>
>
>
>
> --
> Johnny Deadman
>
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