Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good one Sonny! (SonC) Sonny Carter wrote: >Hah! He's probably on the LUG and going back through his papers and marking >you down right now! > >S. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Kit McChesney | acmefoto" <kitmc@acmefoto.com> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 6:18 PM >Subject: RE: [Leica] A camera is a box with a hole in the front. > > >>Rob-- >> >>Well, I wish I could say that most of what I learned was as valuable as >> >what > >>you learned, but most of what I had to do was busy-work. This man was >>obsessed with himself and even more impressed with himself, and it was >>drudgery working with him. He was also pretty verbally abusive (the kind >> >of > >>person who feels that negative is the only kind of criticism worth dishing >>out) so it took a while to get over that! Thank goodness all my other art >>professors were kind and genuinely helpful artists! >> >>There's always a rotten apple in every barrel! >> >>Kit >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Rob Heyman >>Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:31 PM >>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>Subject: Re: [Leica] A camera is a box with a hole in the front. >> >> >>Kit, >>I can identify with that. I began working in a photographic studio for a >>Dutch >>photographer who put me in the darkroom printing his negatives for >> >portrait > >>clients. Day after long day of making slight variations in cropping to his >>already beautifully composed portraits from perfectly exposed negatives. I >>cursed every day printing in that darkroom, when all I ever really wanted >> >to > >>do >>was get out into the studio, or anywhere else, and take pictures. >> >>It took me some years to realise that that was the greatest training I >> >could > >>have received. Staring day after day at the printing easel taught me to >>identify >>a good composition. I transferred this subconsciously to the viewfinder >> >and > >>found that I had learned to crop in the camera. To this day I rarely crop >> >an > >>image except to change the proportions to, perhaps, a panorama. >> >>Great lesson, learned hard. >> >>Rob >> >> >>Kit McChesney | acmefoto wrote: >> >>>Speaking of boxes with holes in them ... you're absolutely right! When I >>> >>was >> >>>in college and majoring in photography, in what was a scandalously bad >>>program somewhere in the South, my professor, who was the tyrannical >>>director of the program, would not allow his students to use anything >>> >BUT > >>a >> >>>pinhole camera, one that we had to build from scratch from balsa wood, >>> >>with >> >>>a precisely measured hole drilled into a small piece of sheet brass. Not >>>only that, but we had to create our own gray cards, gray scales, test >>> >for > >>>reciprocity failure, and a whole host of other arcane tasks that had >>> >>already >> >>>been done by Kodak and god and goddess knows who else, and surely didn't >>>need to be done by a cast of poor, overworked undergrads who only wanted >>> >>to >> >>>learn to take a good picture and learn to use a Good Camera. This horrid >>> >>man >> >>>fancied himself as The Most Knowledgeable Authority on The Subject of >>> >The > >>>Pinhole Camera, and was one of the most unpleasant individuals I have >>> >ever > >>>met in my entire life. He did more to kill the creative spirit of droves >>> >>of >> >>>enthusiastic young photographers than anyone could possibly have >>> >imagined. > >>>(I'm still in recovery). >>> >>>However, I did learn that a camera is indeed a box with a hole, and that >>> >>you >> >>>can take some very interesting pictures with such a box. >>> >>>Makes working with an M a lovely and well-deserved reward for doing >>> >>penance >> >>>in that dismal darkroom 25 years ago. >>> >>>Kit >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Beddoe, >>>Neil >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 10:03 AM >>>To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us' >>>Subject: [Leica] A camera is a box with a hole in the front. >>> >>>My M6 is in a pretty sorry state with external bits falling off and the >>>superglue stuck to the chrome from when I glued the leather back down >>> >and > >>>used too much. Strangely it takes pictures just as well as it did when >>> >I > >>>first bought it. My lenses are still mint in every way as I wrap them >>> >in > >>>cotton wool and tuck them up in bed every night with a lullaby since >>> >they > >>>are the means by which light enters my camera and strikes the film and >>> >as > >>>such are sacred and wondrous objects. >>> >>>I hope all the black paint, titanium and other silly variants on the M >>>camera all fall under Mr Cassidy's bastard file and the people who buy >>> >>them >> >>>realise that this WON'T AFFECT THE QUALITY OF THE PICTURES IN THE >>> >>SLIGHTEST >> >>>AND THAT'S WHAT COUNTS. >>> >>>Neil >>> >>-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>-- >> >>>-- >>>This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of >>> >the > >>>designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended >>> >>recipient >> >>>of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, >>>distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This >>>communication is for information purposes only and should not be >>> >regarded > >>as >> >>>an offer to sell or as a solicitation of an offer to buy any financial >>>product, an official confirmation of any transaction, or as an official >>>statement of Lehman Brothers. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed >>> >to > >>be >> >>>secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this >>> >>information >> >>>is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All >>>information is subject to change without notice. >>> >>>-- >>>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >>> >>>-- >>>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >>> >>-- >>__________________________________ >>Rob Heyman M.Photog >>32 Binyara Street >>CHAPEL HILL Qld 4069 >>Ph 07 3878 3884 fax 07 3378 6639 >>__________________________________ >> >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html