[Leica] Why the mad rush to use Canon or Nikon bodies?

[kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)]

Absolutely.  I still have all kinds of charts and DOF tables in my LF
backpacks.  With my friend, I just say that to irritate him, mainly.
Especially after he has taken 10 minutes to set up a shot and I say, oooh
that's nice, click, click, click, click.  But even here technology
intervenes.  He has been very successful in selling platinum contact prints,
and I gave him my Heidleberg LF scanner to make images for the web.  Of the
prints, that is.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-
> bounces+kcarney1=cox.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of George 
> Lottermoser
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:31 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Why the mad rush to use Canon or Nikon bodies?
> 
> While photoshop can certainly make some decent "perspective"
> corrections;
> it really does not accomplish the "view" that rise and fall does.
> ;~(
> and swing and tilt also accomplishes a control of depth of field
> that no other technique does.
> 
> view cameras with movements
> and the lens focal lengths which accompany them
> simply offer a different "look"
> which small sensors
> (including medium format sensors)
> simply cannot duplicate.
> 
> love digital
> yet, miss the view camera controls and "look."
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> 
> On Nov 3, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Ken Carney wrote:
> 
> > I still have my 8x10 and 4x5 field gear - not sure why, except they
> > don't
> > eat anything.  A good friend and I go out shooting from time to
> > time.  He
> > has at least one 8x10 and an 11x14 on order.  I have my little bag
> > with a
> > couple of dslr bodies and lenses, no tripod, no filters, just cards,
> > batteries and a Whibal.  Whenever he asks about filters,
> > perspective or
> > whatever I always have the same answer: I'll fix it in Photoshop.
> > We are
> > still good friends :).
> >
> > Ken