[Leica] Look at infinite (w.Rolleiflex) ->Ted

[lluisripollquerol at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll Querol)]

Hi Ted, mon ami

I really loved the history you explain. A good photographer with a bad  
camera can do better pictures than the contrary. I remember when I  
wast starting to shot pictures, I was asking me frequently, "well what  
it is interesting to shot and do a nice shot?. And I said to myself,  
if a great photographer was here he will see plenty of things to  
photograph and obtain nices photos!". Maybe on the comming years the  
value of an image will change with so many small digital cameras, but  
the generation we have growth with this advancing technoogy we have a  
different appreciation.

Yes Ted, the qualities you say for the Rollie on street work are  
really true, even I carry a cable realise, I punt my hand on my pocket  
and I shot, on this serie I used frequently this technique, on the  
other hand it is not a quick camera for me, due to my left hand (I had  
an accident many years ago) is slowly focusing  and not easy see  
precise focusing on the screen, I've heard that the Beattie Screens  
improves focusing.

About my knee, this is fortunately much more better!, maybe I'm  
recovered at 80/90%, I was resting at home Monday and Thursday and  
today I can walk normally, fortunately I think it was only a gout  
attack.

Thank you very much for looking, for all your comments  and for your  
kind words to my knee!

Best wishses!

Lluis


El 31/10/2009, a las 21:49, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca>  
escribi?:

> Lluis Ripoll Querol showed:
> Subject: [Leica] Look at infinite (w.Rolleiflex)
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/2009100103.jpg.html
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>> Rolleiflex 6x6, Zeiss Planar 2.8/80mm, TX 320 ISO
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> Hi Lluis,
> The Rollie is a great street camera because one can shoot with the  
> camera pointing in different directions to what it appears you are  
> looking. :-) And basically with no sound of the camera making an  
> exposure. I used two rollies in my early magazine assignment days  
> because we always had to shoot colour and B&W on every shoot, as the  
> final decision of which images would be used was the art director  
> and photo editor's choice.
>
> And if you didn't have both you may not be hired again! :-(
>
> Obviously in the series in your other post, you are making excellent  
> use of the Rollie and it's slightly lower angle. As you also do here.
>
> Longer ago than I want to remember I bought a Rolliecord, had it for  
> 28 days and took it back looking like it had never been out of the  
> box. WHY? Well I didn't have the best camera for best pictures.... :-)
> As we grow older and occasionally wiser! :-) We learn it's the  
> person holding the camera that makes the camera look great! Not the  
> other way around. Similarly so with those who believe owning a Leica  
> automatically makes every exposure a master piece..... Big mistake  
> and completely wrong!
>
> However, the Leica can and does in some instances give the handler a  
> greater feeling of confidence, therefore they try harder at being a  
> better photographer... ERGO!  They become better photographers  
> through their own confidence, attitude and observation of light and  
> subject .
>
> In any event I exchanged the Rolliecord ( they only allowed me 1/2  
> of what I paid for it) and I bought a f3.5 Tessar Rollieflex!  
> Because it was the camera used by Peter Gowland of Hollywood fame  
> and many other big name photographers at the time.
>
> Did it make a difference and did I become a better photographer? I  
> believe so?  I shot hundreds of rolls trying all kinds of teaching  
> situations in the photo magazines of the day. My first born son  
> became the model of the day sitting in his high chair while I  
> learned lighting techniques using hot lights and modeling diagrams  
> for various lighting effects.
>
> He never complained as long as I gave him candy or something to  
> eat. :-) He claims to this day I owe him great amounts of modeling  
> fees for the time he spent watching me move lights about for  
> different portrait light styles. :-) He'll get that as part of his  
> inheritance! :-)
>
> How's the knee coming, better I trust?
>
> cheers,
> ted
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