Re: [Leica] Contax SLR Lens Line

[Steve Hickel <smhickel@x2.alliance.net>]

Mike,

I agree. No point in shooting 1000 rolls for one picture or for 10. I think
my goal would be to shoot three or four to get one or two, something along
that ratio. If I were lucky I might get more useable shots. What will be
done when digital is the editor's choice and you need to lug a notebook
just to store those 36000 pictures for those 1000 rolls. Mind boggling.

Steve

PS. I sure wish someone would take on my lens hood question for my
Steinheil Culminar. I have not idea which lens hood to seek for it.

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>
> Do you really think so? Is it really necessary for a photographer to shoot a
>thousand rolls to make a good essay? I always thought this was to make the
>editors' jobs easier, not the photographers'. Personally, if I were
required to
>shoot 1,000 rolls instead of a hundred to get twenty good pictures, I'd
>consider it an insult to me. My best essay I did with less than 40 rolls!
>
> Although I remember something David Hume Kennerly told me in a supermarket
>checkout line in Georgetown (I didn't recognize him, but he was holding a
copy
>of _Newsweek_, pointing to the cover, and telling the clerk how he shot it
><g>): "There is only one difference between professional and amateur
>photographers. Professionals shoot more film and use fewer of the pictures."
>