Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 8/4/03 1:50:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: > But the question is why you put half the thought into your digital > shots. My point is that comes from your view of digital as not being > "real." Turn off autoeverything and shoot your digital camera the way > you'd shoot an M. - ----------------------------------------- I'm now doing just what you suggest. I've set my 5050 at 1/250 for field work and I'm trying to work with it as I do with my M3. The nature of the Olympus 5050 is such that it resembles a view camera in some ways and a PS in others. Since the 5050 has a zoom lens and my M3 uses separate lenses, part of the extra time involves switching between lenses -- and deciding to do that. I made sure that the 5050 would have an optical finder, closely related to the finder in the M and CL. I'm still in the learning process. But certain differences in approach between film and digital are becoming obvious. The M is much faster and responsive in actually making the exposure. Leica lenses are needle sharp. Shooting B&W with a Leica is the real thing. In a digital you're still playing with color inside the circuitry. And a digital is 100% dependent on battery power. Now and forever. Best, br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html