[Leica] Focus on gear not images

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I agree you can only go so far focusing on your images and have to be aware
of the larger changes of technology to know when its time to go to the
camera store and lay out some cash. Yes you could back then live shooting
with an F2 instead of an F3 but no you cant now keep shooting with a D200 or
D300 when the Pro world is shooting with a D700. And that's exactly how I
experienced it. 
(Though I shot an M6 in the 90's for the most part for 35mm.)
Its great to be artsy but it helps to be enough of a techno geek to know
when its time to migrate to a better newer camera. And the fact that
"everyone is using it" is not always such a bad clue.

And let me be clear that sure like in the 90's I'd rather be shooting with a
rangefinder. In this case an M9. Digital has upped the anti.


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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
mark at rabinergroup.com
Cars:   http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb




> From: Mark Kronquist <mak at teleport.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 19:55:45 -0800
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Focus on gear not images
> 
> Yes and no, Yes because that is always the case. No because we are living
> thorough a time of technological transition we are forced to focus on
> technology and evaluate how it meets our needs to generate sales and our
> experience with film based technology
> 
> We focus on technology because even with technology as simple as an Oatmeal
> Box pinhole camera, photography CANNOT exist without technology
> 
> In the past decade we have been focused on technology because we want 
> digital
> to give us the benefits of digital coupled with the best of film
> 
> We may be finally close to there. We focus on technology because the Nikon
> D2xs may be better that the D2x the M8.2 better than the M8 and finally we 
> may
> have come to a point where, for the first time, my Nikon D3 does more and 
> more
> better that my F2 and Kodachrome and perhaps now future refinements will be
> hey what about HD video what about 102,400 ISO icing on a cake But icing 
> on a
> well baked cake that delivers tasty images
> 
> Apologies to Canon folk. But IMHO last good Canon was F1n. Thanks
> On Dec 5, 2010, at 7:44 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> I do think most of the 8 grand bodies are owned by amateurs and the 2.5
>> grand bodies are owned and used by pros.
>> "photography" as its talked about now for the most part is the act of
>> amassing and trading back and forth large amounts of photo gear. By 
>> software
>> designers.
>> "Photographers" are the ones whose focus is not on their gear but on their
>> images.
>> 
>> 
>> --------------------
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>> mark at rabinergroup.com
>> Cars:   http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Marc Dufour <foto at marcdufour.net>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 01:06:34 +0100
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Making a living as a photographer
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The matter isn't photography. Nor Photography.
>>> No more than Plant Orchids, Play Football or Make Camembert.
>>> The matter is about consider oneself as a pro or as an amateur.
>>> A professional has a better gear and depends on commissions.
>>> An amateur has worse gear, and photograph for pure enjoyment.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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