Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted means shots like this. Pretty easy with the 35mm lens. http://gallery.leica-users.org/Rachel-Scott/6_6229_07 In extreme cases, one can stand on a chair. http://gallery.leica-users.org/Rachel-Scott/3_6233_10 The "real" professional photographer at this wedding shot me standing on a chair taking the above picture. I want a copy! :-) I often don't need the extra height, as I am 6 feet 3 inches (190.5 cm) tall. It's also good for getting things out of top cupboards. But not for slipping through crowds. Or going unnoticed. Or fitting in cars. --Peter At 12:26 PM 9/3/2005 -0700, Ted Grant wrote: >The more things like an LCD added to the back of an M like camera is just >another item to keep the camera from appearing in another 10 years. ;-) If >ever! Besides holding the camera over one's head to shoot is nothing new >and we nearly always managed at least one successful picture doing it >without even looking at anything other than the base plate and pointed in >the general direction of the subject.