Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I miss the old days, with my Linhof 4x5 field outfit and a Polaroid back. I would just give out the test prints on the spot. I also send prints by email, and sometimes framed and matted prints. I do that at the Laguna Pueblo, where I have had a portfolio over the last 20 years or so. I think they sell them at the church fairs. Ken -----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 Jayanand Govindaraj Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 7:57 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] (Now) Nikon 24-120 People ask me that all the time when I show them the photo I have just shot on the camera screen, and I always reply that it is just a hobby. I offer to send prints by post, though, which I always, always do - a postcard sized print, either by mail, or when I next pass through the same area. Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote: > Right. I will sometimes ask if I can take a photo, and almost always > it is a yes. If I have one of the honking big lenses on sometimes a > person will ask what paper it will be in, and then I have to make > something up. I guess that may be wrong on some level. > > Ken > > -----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 > Jayanand Govindaraj > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 7:25 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] (Now) Nikon 24-120 > > I do street shooting all the time (at least once a week nowadays), > both with honking big DSLRs with their equally big zooms/primes, and > more recently with the much more compact Fuji X system. IMHO, it makes > no difference whatsoever - I personally think that the big > camera/small camera, loud camera/quiet camera debate is a lot of > hogwash for street photography. My advice is to just use what one is > comfortable with psychologically, so that street photography does not > feel intrusive, and the relaxed demeanor that follows will result in all the photographs that one could want. > Cheers > Jayanand _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information