[Leica] M8 trials and tribulations? NOW! More techie BS!

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

ROCKIN' THE BOAT! :-)

OK Guys & Gals here I go again about the crucial needs for knowing this
stuff. EXIF whatever it does in making, taking, shooting good photographs
does?

Please explain, as usual in the simplest of terms, because this EXIF isn't
recorded does it mean the picture is lousy? However it becomes a work of art
because you know what the EXIF is?

Before people get their underpants in a knot and delete the "old guy " think
about shooting film.  

We never had exposure, lens, aperture data on the negative! We shot it right
or we didn't. All the details were recorded in our mind or you didn't really
give a damn. Unless it was for a specific example of handling the camera and
shutter speed for special effects.

No I don't have a clue what the hell an EXIF is or does in shooting good old
fashion solid photographs. And yes up to this moment I've worked with 4
different digital cameras, including an M8 with varying degrees of
goodness!!! However the goodness depended on the guy holding the camera and
had diddly squat to do with knowing an EXIF file from a wart! And all
un-marked lenses!

Or is this just another one of those digital techie things that clutters
one's vision while trying to shoot solid photographs?

Walt Johnson noted:
>>> Could working the darn camera end up as the accomplishment instead of 
making images?<<<<<

Walt at the rate people go on about all this techie stuff I agree with you
whole heartedly. It has become, or seems so, operating the camera is more
important than taking good photographs. And having to "think" all this stuff
litters the visual senses to the point where a piece of crap exposure on a
sensor is gushed over because it has the EXIF details.

So far the M8 material I've shot has been with plain old fashion M lenses
quickly clicked into place and used without thinking about anything other
than the visual moments before me! Dang and you know what? They look just
fine!

People can't be thinking about all this techie stuff and shooting good stuff
at the same time. Simply because "you can't think and shoot" at the same
time! Think about it and it's over before your finger twitches!

EXIF? Hell who cares, don't think and wring wrists because it is or isn't
there unless it truly makes ones photography better than you re-act to!

Me? Hell I'm just going to continue using digital the same as I've shot film
for over half a century, "see-click!" Nice picture.:-) Or, damn! Missed it! 

The title of the digital Power point lecture I gave last weekend to a couple
hundred shooters?  "DIGITAL. Ease up on the numbers. The Essence of
Photography does not Change!" 

KISS guys and gals that's what it's all about! :-)

ted