RE: [Leica] Leica vs. Digital: Our divided loyalties

["Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics" <saganicc@MSKCC.ORG>]

Well I've been trying to get my digital camera to do this.

http://www.saganich.com/street pages/bs102.htm

Chris Saganich

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From: firkin@ncable.net.au [mailto:firkin@ncable.net.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 5:06 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica vs. Digital: Our divided loyalties

This is true, but although I do put the M on a tripod (see images of 
Antelope canyon etc recently), I often think why am I using the M on a 
tripod, not the blad or Rollei with its bigger negative. Time usually.

Cheers
On Thursday, Jul 17, 2003, at 04:11 Australia/Melbourne, bdcolen wrote:

> Adam brilliantly opined...
> ---
> I think most of use seldom use more than what digital gives us. Do you
> put your M on a tripod to shoot or only shoot at 1/1000th? If you don't
> are you REALLY getting the full benefit of that Leica glass? I don't
> think we do, I think we slip into the domain of digital imaging simply
> by hand holding and shooting at slower shutter speeds, so we never
> capture what we might otherwise achieve.
>
> Adam
> --
>
> Allow me to be blunt, and a wee bit rude - I rarely, if ever - see
> images posted here - and I of course include my own in this comment -
> that could not easily have been created with virtually any other brand
> of interchangeable lens camera. For that matter, most of the iconic
> which have, over the decades, been shot with Leicas could just as 
> easily
> be shot with any other brand of camera. As Adam notes, it is the rare
> photographer indeed who uses the equipment/film/processing/printing
> combination necessary to eek out that Leica extra.
>
> That doesn't mean that people should toss their Leicas and grab 
> digitals
> - obviously there is more to the camera/photographer combination than
> image resolving power. There are many things about Ms which may
> contribute to the production of great images.
>
> But Adam is smack on target when he says that most Leica produced 
> images
> could easily be duplicated with good digital equipment because most
> Leica produced images do not begin to require the most out of Leica
> equipment.
>
> B. D.
>
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>
Alastair

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