Re: [Leica] Konica facts

[Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>]

Tim Atherton wrote:
> 
> Aw common Mark, you're a great photographer - but BS!
> 
> There is really no such thing as Leica photography - only photography you do
> with a Leica - full stop.
> 
> The Leica is just a tool - a pretty good one most of the time, but it often
> falls short in different way. To get the job done I often  take along other
> cameras because the Leica M won't always do what is needed. (shooting
> Armenian diamond cutters in a night club on new years eve when it's
> basically too dark even to see through the viewfinder of an M apart from the
> odd blinding flash of disco light! - AF and ttl flash) Like any tool it has
> it's limitations and I take photographs, make images. I don't just pack up
> and go home because it's a shot the leica won't do. I love what my M does,
> but it's not always the first camera I grab. And I often take the same shots
> with my Nikon as I would with the Leica, because the Leica is in my hand -
> they aren't Nikon photography because of it... they are just photography.
> 
> Tim A
> 
Photography with a Leica is certainly what we are all about here and I've
certainly made a commitment to it. I've used my Nikons once or twice a year for
copy macros. I take the batteries out when I'm done so they don't leak.

I've shot dance and fashion parties new years eve and otherwise where the only
way i can see is to make my flash go off. And I'm using a 35mm lens aimed at 6
feet away and I've got eveyting in focus from 4 ft. to 11 ft. I'd point my
camera when i heard an interesting noise and shoot; never looked though it!
You people have too many cameras. And are too quick to separate into cute
categories: the Leica can do this the Nikon do this. 

I tell people put ALL your cameras in storage and see what in a year you
COULDN'T SHOOT with your Leica M's.
 
NOT MUCH.

I've had no use for AF in years.
I am AF!

mark rabienr