Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I know a man who is one of Canon's sponsored photographers. I also know his assistant. I once asked his assistant how does he set his cameras when shooting, does he use all those special custom settings? Answer? No, he shoots all on manual. Just like he did on film. -----Original Message----- From: Ted Grant Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 10:28 PM To: 'Leica Users Group' Subject: Re: [Leica] Highly Intelligent Crop Factor Overview My last words on this. :-) TRUE! :-) No matter how much I read the messages? All that happened was I became more stupid than I was before I started! But that's quite simple for a non-techie type like me.. See once I learned how to put film in a camera or change a lens I never bothered with anything else. Oh yeah and what ASA meant and how to set a hand meter eventually moving along to some of the built in cameras. Oh I had to learn how to use a 4X5 Speed Graphic, load film holders and magazines. Oh yeah and soup the film in little 4'X4' film souping rooms! Here's how? :-) Boss man says: "OK Ted never mind that tiddly little plaything camera, here's a man's camera! Pay attention as I'm going to only show you once how it works in the next few minutes before you go out on your first assignment." And he did! :-( Like in about 15 minutes was the "HOW TO LESSON!" Just one show and tell all the details followed with>>>>>>>> "OK ? DON'T WORRY, JUST REMEMBER TO PULL THE SLIDE AND REPLACE IT BEFORE CHANGING MAGS! AND YOU ONLY HAVE 12 SHEETS." "OH YEAH, YOU HAVE TO COCK THE SHUTTER BEFORE EACH SHOT! DON'T WASTE FILM AS YOU CAN GET GREAT PHOTOS WITH TWO SHOTS!" And I did my 3 assignments that evening and didn't screw-up anything! :-) Then 65 plus years later you guys come along with all this digi- crop (I nearly put CRAP?") ;-) So frustrated, I called my LUG friend Henning Wulff and asked him to please explain what are they talking about? He did very simple and eloquently! Thank you Henning very much. And yes he explained it very gently so that as we spoke I understood exactly what all these major concern's were all about. We said "Good bye" and I forgot most of what he said as we hung-up! Oh well !!!:-( YOU DIDN'T REALLY THINK I'D REMEMBER DID YOU?" MY RESPONSE? It's completely meaningless unless you happen to be a "Major Techno Freak !" More concerned about digital tiddily thingies of crop and image size of all those little things that make a print on a page! The "REALITY?" In 99.99% of the time? It doesn't matter! Unless? Once again "ONE IS A TECHNO FREAK!" OR unless you have a magnifying glass to search the image to see the difference. None of all this "crop stuff" isn't going to make your photography any better? What I'm constantly telling you!!!!!!!! "IT'S THE CONTENT THAT COUNTS!" Sure we want beautiful prints anytime! That's a given! But what you guys see and what I see must be astronomical differences? I've spent several months printing Number 1 Son's Iphone photos! I tried 13X19 size and scrubbed it immediately! Looked something like B&W film at ASA 6400 for grain or whatever those little digi things are called? Drop the print size to 11.7 X 16.5 and they're smashing great prints of smashing great content! Colour & B&W! OK my relationship with so much of the constant meaningless diatribe that comes up for weeks on end! I'd bet a $100.oo that the ratio of CREW who understand what you're talking about, compared to those who don't have a clue what it's all about is ONE in 500! It's something like the "viewfinder on the M8!" Has some kind of thing about it the techie folks don't like? ME? Hell I didn't know there was as I pop lenses on mine.................. 15mm, look through camera view finder all looks cool? Square the center point. CLICK! I look at the screen? OOPS! I make an adjustment returning to the M8 view-finder.... CLICK! And the image looks cool! Pop on my Noctilux ?? "CLICK!" What you see is what you get! A COOL NOCTI-PHOTO.:- Oh what was that "problem with the view finder???????? There you go CREW the old guy needs a nap. See Ya... have fun with the cropping whatever that means? :-) :-) cheers, The "mean-ass Dr. ted!" :-) (( Or whatever description you wish to hang on him? )) ;-) _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information