[Leica] Technical detail--why? ok! here's why! :-)

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Cedric Agie offered;
>>>All professional photographers I know (but they are
few) work the same way and sometimes compare their results. I guess
amateurs never or seldom do so and prefer endless discussions about
subjects, in fact articles, they have just read somewhere and that
they take for granted.

When a professional photographer reads something new, he has an
attitude of prudence, he first wants to know  what and why, before
accepting (buying) anything. Even with Leica and Hasselblad.<<<<<<
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Well Cedric old buddy you haven't been talking to this old fart professional 
photographer whose first news photo was front page Ottawa Citizen in Ottawa. 
The National Capital of Canada 17 September 1951. And published quite 
probably every week since. :-)

Oh yeah and as we speak I would like to point out, in case you don't take me 
serious? The photo collection of my photographic experience in the National 
Archives of Canada is 280,000 images. And down the street in the National 
Gallery of Canada there is another 100,000 images from documentaries across 
our great land! And some of yours, the USA I believe.

And you are a professor. Great, so am I.... It's Dr. Ted Grant, Honorary 
Doctorate of Laws due to my rather wild and crazy life as a photojournalist, 
university lecturer, author and heavens know what in photography!  If you 
care to read more at the moment do try:  TEDGRANTPHOTO.COM  my website. 
Thank you. Remember I didn''t write that stuff because when I read it. I 
asked, are you folks writing about me?  Yeah I know it's hard to believe. 
But then I was always the "Silent Observer"

Then come October 2013 wait for the biography release of a 55,000 word and 
135 photographs book. No I didn't write it, I just sat there for half  a 
year being interviewed by the author. Then she went off across Canada doing 
interviews with ex-Prime Ministers and many publishing folks.

Now before you get all ranty I would like to point out that this "writing, 
reading and making notes and keeping track of details and for why?" Is 
obviously a face to face conversation at best, not for internet conversation 
simply because the internet isn't  fast enough in carrying rebuttals and 
quick discussions!

It's a topic of rebuttals, faster than the internet can cope with and the 
subject should be while we are all sitting at a round table, obviously a 
cold beer in hand to keep it civil so we can go back and forth without 
snarling at each other in stupid discourse what is right or wrong as we see 
unfortunately on the screen?

OR? Maybe a broader explanation of whom each poster is and their back ground 
in our delightful world of photography of a million various venues!

You good Sir are, I believe involved in the major side of technical 
understandings of glass in lenses and the likes? ERGO, a major reason to 
keep notes and that's no problem as it's life in the development of fine 
optics. And you use your notes for a completely different side of 
photography than many of us who have slightly more than a few years 
experience as published professional photographers. Where keeping notes, 
other than for captions is all that's necessary. Technical stuff? Very 
rarely as a working photojournalist.

And I respectively offer. Keeping notes on what we gear is a complete and 
utter waste of our time.

By the same token, many of our folks like to keep notes as that's part of 
their way in doing their photography. Then there's me! :-) Heck man I just 
shoot everything that turns me on that has anything to do with the 
assignment subject from Open Heart surgery to cowboys of North America  and 
or the Olympics wherever they maybe in the world.

Technical conversations are without question far more interesting and 
understanding of each of our ways of being involved in our particular field 
of photography when we are face to face chatting about it.
"BEEN THERE---- DONE IT MANY MANY TIMES. AND ENJOYED IT IMMENSELY AS I 
ALWAYS LEARNED SOMETHING. FACE TO FACE!"  But on the internet? All it does 
is create on some occasions "bad feelings?" And or e-mails of ridiculous 
wastes of time! As I'm sure some of the crew today will chastise me for! :-)

There now good Sir, I trust I may have cleared? Or completely screwed 
everything up Royally so it'll take several "Single Malts" to clear the air 
and we can all understand each others meaning of and how we do our 
photography. NOTES OR NO NOTES! :-)

OK there you are lads and lasses. Thank you and good night! :-)

Cheers,
Dr. ted :-)