Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 1/3/2006 11:57:21 P.M. Central Standard Time, tedgrant@shaw.ca writes: Sonny showed: >>Subject: [Leica] waiting for the fireworks > http://www.sonc.com/bridge_lights.htm<< >Hi Sonny, >Do you find you tend to shoot more in the evening type lighting situations >like this than when you shot film? Ted, The bridge lights were shot with Fuji 1600 Natura and my VC 21 on an M7. I think I let the camera set the shutter speed, though I was using a monopod. I have gone back to film and just about given up using digital for anything except flowers or other times I need macro. I think I talked about my motivation for doing this while you were away. Anyhow, here's an example. I have been clearing out my parent's home for the last few weeks, keeping some things for myself and giving their grandchildren worthwhile mementos. I came across a cardboard box about 18 inches wide ten inches deep and maybe 2 feet long. I opened it and found the greatest treasure my parents could have ever left me. Inside were hundreds of photos. Pictures taken of me and my cousins as children. Snapshots of my own children when they went for visits there. Pictures taken during my parents courtship, and shots my father sent from England during WW II. There were shots from Okinawa, the Philippines, and shots around Saigon and Tan San Nuit. Also in the box was a sweet letter home, written on a folding photo postcard longingly to his wife and the son he had never seen. Must have cost him a fortune in postage. Many of the shots were quite sharp, but there were some that were a little on the shaky side, and some that missed focus altogether, but I think those were the most pleasurable hours I've spent in this sad year. And to think, if Dad had a digital camera, most of these would never have been printed. I'm gonna keep on shooting film, until I can figure a better way to keep the shoe boxes filled with prints instead of digits. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish