Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marvin wrote: <<<<FOR THIS REASON, I then carried a body for each lens, when ever I could. This was not as expensive as it would seem today, as I didn't use the newest, "state of the art" lenses & could buy a Leica with 3 lenses for what just one M6 body cost today. Hi Marvin, I've always hated fiddling and changing lenses, it's nothing but a big pain in the butt and too many missed picture opprtunities with one body and half dozen lenses. Sometimes I work with three R cameras and two M cameras or vise versa all at the same time hanging from one part of my anatomy or appendages. Besides I hate those big camera bags guys carry around with their lifes equipment just taking up space in a crowd or due to their inability to make their minds up about what they are going to shoot or know they have to shoot. By the same token I know when to just take an M6 and the Noctilux and quietly do my thing quite unobtrusively. When I work with several cameras it's much like a painter working with a number of brushes, each one gives a special kind of stroke as the painter works his/her way across the canvas creating the final image or essay. In my shooting, I'm constantly on the move watchig the light, the action and recording everything that motivates me as well as moving with the subject. Sometimes it's a 280 used at it's closest focus point to capture only the subjects eyes or hands or quickly taking the camera with the 15mm to do something wide and framed tightly in very cramped quaters. I'm something like "fluid in motion" as a doctor said one day after spnding 14 hours from start to finish during operations and post op. :) "I've never seen anyone flow around an OR like you've done all day and yet not be in the way nor making the staff aware of your presence." "Your fluid in motion!" :) I figure that's a great compliment for a photographer to receive in being invisable and doing his job. :) Ted Grant This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant