Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is my statement on the matter. http://www.dantestella.com/technical/verichrome.html Dante On Nov 2, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Dave Olson wrote: > Is it because they are digital? To show you how slow I am, I thought > the R8.2 or the R 9 were digital. Or are they? Please accept my > "stupidity". Frankly I'm confused. I have two beautiful R6.2s and an > R7. My 'M' setup is nicely complete. My Canon AF is very complete > too include a number of EOS 3s, EOS 1RSs and going back to the > beginning, an RT. Of course all are film. I have two pocket size > Yashica T4, Carl Zeiss Tessar f3.5/35. One has a waist level view > finder. My digital consists of a Canon 40D and my little Leica C > luxe. If I had a mad desire to shot digital I'm all set. My > feelings are film. In the trade journals you read where so and so > professional photographer has gone back to film for the properties > it conveys. For photojournalism, digital makes sense with tight > deadlines. I don't think H.C.B. ever had to worry about a deadline. > For Capa and Douglas bouncing around Spain, then the German entry > into Paris. D-Day on Normanday beach. If you see real movie clips from > the liberation of Paris. David Douglas can be seen in the lead jeep > shooting with a Leica. Around 1953 in a rice patty no one remembers, > in Indochine, Capa stepped on a mine. Brillance lost in a flash. I'm > not sure if what I'm talking about has anything to do with digital, > or even film. I know my personal feelings are film, and will be as > as long as I can hold a camera or fasten it to a mono or tripod. > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: > Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com > > Powered by Outblaze > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information