Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]After a couple of months leave (travelling in Africa and USING my gear!) I subscribed again. What a debacle I find. Only R. Brummett's humor and astute observations made it worth reading! Why bother fighting on the same old topics? As for my Nordic colleague, I think he *had* a point but I for one sure cannot understand why he hangs around in this forum. Most people would move on to more receptive audiences. Hint: want to try alt.journalism.photo - if nobody cares about repeated pledges to politics at least it isn't because they are equipment fetishes. No Montblanc-babble either. Subscribed the digest and related to that a practical hint that someone may not have noticed. For digest kill-files for subjects or people obviously don't work. But by putting "Subject:" to the subject-line of your finder-routine that comes with most window-dresses operating systems you can jump from message to message. Then you just read the interesting articles and skip over to the next header without having screenfulls the drivel to scroll over. Saves time for sure. A suggestion. Could the mailer software be changed so that in the beginning of the digest we have the headers listed? Would speed up the reading even further, with the finder of course. I know it is standard software as some of the other lists I subscribe use it. Other than that the M really showed it's mettle in Ethiopia. Shot people really close up in villages, churches and along the way, busses etc. Quietness is such a great asset. Lots of shots inside with ridicluously long times yet a good fraction came out unblurred and in focus. It's also very good for hipshots etc. for essentially the same reason. Again met people who don't know what a camera is - it never ceases to surprise me. And once you make contact it gives an opportunity to capture some completely unexhibited expressions and gestures. Makes you be really careful not to "corrupt" them. M comes strong here as the noise doesn't reveal that anything much is being done. Unfortunately using SLRs after that is like having something exploding in your hands... Cheers, Kari Eloranta