Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wait, *grin* Why would anyone want to have the camera facing their hip? Its awkward trying to get to the camera, and should you accidently hit the shutter release (Cause you're using a softie) :) You would get nice pictures of your hip. (Though Im sure she had a nice hip, Leicas can't do macro photography anyway ;)) - -Mark (Who wants to talk about anything other than DOF, BOKEH, and 802.11b) Cohen :) On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Kyle Cassidy wrote: from "shutterbabe": I became a photojournalist during the late 80's, the last days of the manual camera ... having a nikon f2, f3 or fm2 signified both a technical proficiency with manual cameras as well as a seriousness and commitment to photojournalism. Even cooler was a black nikon cmaera body with a few well-placed dents and screatches on it. It ssaid to the others, I'm a rugged person ... I did have that Leica, however. It was an M6, the kind with the built-in light meter. Owning a Leica M-series camera put you in a whole other league. The Leica was the Porsche of the camera world; it was small, light, exquisitely crafted, mechanically perfect and very, very expensive. It was the "it" camera for the "concerned" photographer -- a loose definition for a photographer who cares deeply about his subjects, who spends years and years shooting a single, thematicallly unified story on subjects like prisions, sweatshops or anything remotely related to Ethopia. With a Leica slung casually over your shoulder -- always with the lens facing in toward your rib cage to protect it, otherwise you'd be pegged immediately as an amateur -- you could always pretend to be a concerned photographer, whether or not you'd ever stepped foot in Ethopia. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Cohen (BALUG LHSA AFA) 226 San Carlos Street #1 "MIS people have sick, twisted San Francisco, CA 94110 little minds" -Linus Torvalds (home) (415) 970-9421 (pager) (888) 702-9872 (cell) (415) 290-7201 (work) (415) 633-1179 page-mark@binaryfaith.com *** The box said "Install NT 4.0 or better", so I installed UNIX *** - ----------------------------------------------------------------- - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/FA/MU d? s+:+ a- C++++ ULBS++++$ P- L+++ E--- W-(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M-- V-- PS+++ PE Y++ PGP++ t+ 5++ X R+ !tv b+++ DI+++ D+ G++ e++ h++ r% y+ z** - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------