Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John, you nailed it! The autoeverything, regardless of what it is (camera, car...) takes the operator out of the equation, and in our case, the photographer is simply a button pusher. Photography is in the photographer, not the camera. If the camera does the thinking for you, you are no longer a photographer. Some of the gizmos can be great for fast moving events. A good photographer can indeed use these auto-gizmos, in these situations, to produce real meaningful photographs. But in most other situations, the creative photographer part of the equation is lost. This is one of the reasons that I believe, the Leica camera, is indeed a state of the art photographic apparatus. Good lenses and good mechanics... other than R8 winders :) Jim At 09:19 PM 5/7/98 +0000, John McLeod wrote: > >Sorry about the long diatribe here, but just because "most people" think >auto-everything defines State of the Art in photography, doesn't make it so. > Leicas are so different from Canons and Nikons that it is difficult to >compare them. They aren't trying to be the same thing. Another good >example of this problem is the whole M6 vs. Contax G2 debate. Heck, the G2 >does almost everything. Does it define the State of the Art in 35mm >rangefinder camera design? > >John McLeod >