Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Friends, It occurs to me reading Ted's post that many of us, me included, spend too much time worrying about the minutae of photography and not enough time behind the viewfinder. It sounds as though Ted's having a LOT of fun with his new toys. I, for one, am jealous, but not of his new toys. It's the FUN he's having! Bless you for the insight, Ted. Today, I promise, I'm going to have some fun... Len -- -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+ljkapner=cox.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+ljkapner=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ted Grant Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 11:15 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: [Leica] PART 4: of Digilux 2.... THE FUN PART! :-) B. D. said: >I have to say that I'm amused by the fact that on the one hand, people talking about wanting a camera that works like an M, doesn't have all the digifoldarol, etc. etc., and on the other someone's asking for a histogram superimposed on the viewfinder - talking about digifoldarol and not destroying the entire idea of that bright, clear, uncluttered viewfinder....:-)<<< Nathan Wajsman replied: > Not me, B.D., I don't want any histograms or anything else. My ideal digital camera would be just like an M, with a pure, optical,unadulterated viewfinder. All the electronic info can be relegated to the LCD.<< Hi Guys, Right on!!!!! :-) What I'm discovering about digital is quite interesting because so many folks are making a big kind of mystery out of it. When it isn't! When they should KISS it honey! It's just damn picture taking that puts images on a disk like film, it just holds captured moments. Neat thing is you get to see instant pictures for a short time until you realize yer pissing away hours looking at the screen instead of shooting! So why dig up histograms and other wiggilies that the techie people keep doing with film and mm thingies to sort out lenses. Take pictures and stop screwing around! If one casts aside 99% of the digi buttons and other switches and thinks... "set this sucker on full auto everything" and blasts away having fun, I've found 99.999999% of what I've shot with the Canon G5 and now blazing a trail through the night sky with a Digilux 2 is all quite incredible. Quite good actually! ;-) Histogram? hell that's some kind of mountainous looking thing best left untouched unless yer a bear for techie stuff and mind bending. Hell by the time one fiddles with that I'd have two, 256 cards filled with magical moments! :-) See this is the difference with me and many other folks, I've always taken pictures knowing the least amount of technical stuff because that's all a big pain in the ass to read and learn when I could be out clicking away having a ball. In the beginning I swore I'd approach digital photography differently.Right? You know after all these years of clicking shutters and burning film I'm supposed to be wiser therefore read the digi manuals and do it right like others. I got lost the first few pages never mind chapters of gobbily gook words I don't understand what they're supposed to do nor mean. So it came down to..."how to turn it on? How to make it show you pictures? How not to delete things accidentely? Gues what? Generally it worked fine. Oh yeah ... "How to set everything to auto?" God you have to love it, sure beats the hell out of knocking yerself out reading manuals, histograms and getting the "look at the screen every twenty second twitches after an exposure is made!" See picture taking is supposed to be fun, otherwise why the hell do it and I mean whether yer making a living or just plain all out good old fashion fun. So the less you worry yerself with the digital jargon and get out taking "auto-pictures" why hell you'll have more fun than a dozen cats in heat! I don't know what all the fuss is about, I'm having a great time and quite astonishingly lucky to boot making some damn fine photographs, and under some conditions I'd probably not waste the time nor money to shoot film. But man I'm having fun and learning by doing! Histograms? I don't need no "steeenkin histograms!" ;-) However, I would appreciate a better viewfinder on the digi 2! ted _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information