Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]AMEN DR. TED! Cheers Lluis El 13/01/2013, a las 00:41, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> escribi?: > Well I'm still 99.99999% a Leica M8 user! A Canon SLR once in a while. > > It never concerns me whatever it is that's smaller that some folks go on > about with the M8? Yeah I know something to do about not being full frame > or something like that? Whatever? Get over it, it doesn't matter! If you > are a photographer first and techie squirming luddite second, the diddly > squat stuff don't matter! It's your eye, your click is all that matters! > Not the camera! > > But if you understand what photography is about and that 99.9999999999% of > what counts? And it's the content and you shoot images with an M8 without > any techie thoughts whatsoever you can still come out with fine high > impact images! > > We see it nearly daily on the screen! So obviously the techie types and > their over concerns about a smaller whatever it is? Means diddly squat! > Oh hell there I go, so I better head for the bunker before the incoming > crap starts arriving! If you see great moments and you have an M in your > hands, rarely are you going to miss the moment. That is of curse it the > camera is nothing but an extension of your ability to see and instantly > re-act to the content! > > I'm not talking about shooting high intensity sports where a 300 - 400mm > lenses are required or similar type assignments. But the day to day > assignments for my books on the medical profession and other documentaries > on many subjects, the M's work just fine. Although I only have one M8 body > at the moment and several lenses. There are surely times I wish I was > shooting as I did so often in the past with three bodies and three > different lenses all hanging off my neck or shoulders. > > And in digital why you could shoot for days without having to change > anything but the small move that allows you the ultimate moment of impact > for content! > > Some day ?????????? > > cheers, > Dr. ted > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Klein" <pklein at threshinc.com> > To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 2:13 PM > Subject: [Leica] R3 owners.... AT > > >> Just for fun, I decided to do some directory scans for various RAW file >> formats. I started shooting digital seriously in 2004. Back in the film >> era, I was 100% Leica M, except for the couple of years in the 90s when I >> shot an Olympus OM-2. Here's what I found: >> >> - From 2004-2010, I shot 75% Leica M. >> - In 2011, I shot 62% Leica M. >> - In 2012, I shot 34% Leica M. >> >> Other tidbits: >> - In the film era, I used to shoot less than 25 rolls per year. About >> 700-900 frames each year. >> - In 2004, the year I got my first serious digital camera (Olympus E-1), >> I shot 27 rolls of film. Each subsequent year, I shot less film. After >> May 2007, when I got my M8, I shot virtually no film. >> - My average number of shots per year since I went digital has gone up, >> but not hugely. From 700-900 film frames per year, to about 1300 frames >> per year in the last two years. >> - It was only when I got my M8 that digital replaced film for the truly >> important stuff. >> - The convenience of 4/3 and Micro 4/3 has sometimes trumped absolute >> image quality for me. My heart still prefers the Leica M8. The Olympus >> OM-D E-M5 is my first camera that is light enough that I'll carry it >> around, *and* has image quality that's even in the M8's league. And the >> M8 still wins in good light. >> - As you get older, and assuming you're not a pro with client >> requirements, the camera you'll carry often wins over the "best" camera. >> - Price matters for most of us. And in the digital era, having a Leica >> habit is far more expensive than in the film era. If I didn't already >> have my Leica lenses when the M8 came out, I might have made a different >> decision. >> >> --Peter >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist3 at mac.com> >> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 5:39:03 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central >> > Subject: Re: [Leica] R3 owners.... AT >> > >> > >> > On Jan 11, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> > >> > > I as far as the Leica users group goes its not off topic >> > > its anti topic. Our middle name is "users". >> > >> > I'd have interest in knowing >> > how many Leica User Group members >> > still actually use Leica cameras >> > a) occasionally >> > b) most of the time >> > c) exclusively >> > >> > I'm a Leica User for 90% of my photography >> > >> > Regards, >> > George Lottermoser >> > george at imagist.com >> > http://www.imagist.com >> > http://www.imagist.com/blog >> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> > >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information