Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Have you tried using the SB 30 flash with it? It's made for the CP5000 in mind, size and weight wise. It folds down to make a compact little blob, while on the camera. Best of all, it's way under a C note from the usual sources. Slobodan Dimitrov Johnny Deadman wrote: > > The comparison between LCDs and ground glass is an interesting one. The > pictures I take with the LCD are substantially more like my LF pictures > than my 35mm pix, but they have a freedom I have never been able to > achieve in LF (I've seen some of Tim's LF pix and he is a lot looser > than I ever was). There is also a slightly alienated quality to > shooting something using the LCD which is quite difficult to replicate > when using a direct-vision viewfinder, although I am getting better at > it. The first picture I took which made me realize there was something > special about shooting digital via the LCD was this one: > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/paw/pages/week5.html > > I had photographed this spot using the 4x5 camera several times, with > pitifully poor results. One day just after I bought the CP5000 I had it > in my cycle pannier as I was cycling to work, and as I passed through > this spot, I thought to myself, damn, that's the picture. I pulled out > the digi and framed it on the LCD (it was bright so I could hardly see) > and when I got to work, uploaded it, and there it was. I can't tell you > how many sheets of 4x5 I wasted trying to do the same thing. > > There is something close to Eggleston's idea of 'shotgun photography' > in using a digi with the LCD (for those who don't know, W Eggleston at > some point gave up looking through the viewfinder and called the > resulting photographs 'shotgun photos' -- in that they were aimed by > instinct like a shotgun rather than by eye like a rifle and scope). > What you discover is that sometimes when you loosen your grip on the > compositional aspects of the photographic game, rather than the > compositions becoming weaker, they become stronger, more complex, more > confounding and confrontational, more troubling even. It certainly > makes you look through a viewfinder differently afterwards. > > On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 09:30 PM, Tim Atherton wrote: > > > > >>> He didn't say it wasn't visible, rather you would never have seen the > >>> composition. > >> > >> How is that? If it's visible on the LCD, it's visible in the > >> viewfinder...and the composition is identical. > >> > > > > Abandon the engineer stuff for a minute Austin - no one is talking > > about > > what is or isn't visible and what is or isn't empirically identical. > > We are > > talking about how the eye and brain perceives it as different. > > > > Have you ever used a LF camera? > > > > If we are talking about a dig cam with an optical viewfinder (as John > > is) > > and an LCD screen, the view and composition isn't identical - one is > > still, > > to some extent, 3 dimensional and the other is flat - 2D they are > > different > > > > tim > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > -- > John Brownlow > > pictures: > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com > > warblog: > http://www.unintended-consequences.com > > -- > 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