Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/15

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Subject: [Leica] Oversimplification
From: lrzeitlin at aol.com (lrzeitlin at aol.com)
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:13:10 -0400
 
 Ted writes:
"In the "REALLY GOOD OLD DAYS" one bought the LEICA, added a roll of film 
each time you wished to take more photos. And you did it that way and it 
worked perfectly. oh for about 20-30 years and never let you down."


With all due respect this is a drastic oversimplification. The Leica worked 
fine provided you had the knowledge to measure the light properly, chose the 
appropriate lens opening, set the shutter speed, focus the camera, have a 
good reliable processing service or did the wet work yourself. If not being 
handled by a person with years of appropriate experience it was a inert lump 
of metal and glass. Even loading the film took specialized knowledge. Of 
course choosing the content was the most important step and that did not 
depend on the camera at all.


But I'm sure you didn't mean to imply that photographic experience was 
irrelevant.


Larry Z