Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]CF I like your line of thinking. Not long ago I started doing the same thing with an M3 - loading it up with B&W and venturing forth without a lightmeter to do some street photography. Makes you really pay attention to what's going on around you. Is it possible that this is the true essence of Leica M photography? Cheers Kevin Hoffberg - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of capitaine francky Sent: Thursday, November 26, 1998 6:08 AM To: leica Subject: [Leica] In lightmeter we trust Hi lugers Owner of a M5, I recently (leica disease) buy a mint M2 , no lightmeter inside... it change my way of photographing In the beginning, when was taking just the M2, i was perturbed : too dependent of my Lunasix, looking more at the metering than at the subject of photography....(i mostly doing street pictures, i miss some). For couple of weeks i 've tried to willingly forget my lightmeter at home (tri-x 400 and modern BW neg have a so good tolerance ) feeling the lights and trust myself. May be i 'm in a mistaking, it's just a personnal point of view, but i think that by this wayi'm more in my photography: "feeling the light as much as the subject"... more engagement, i was feeling more implicated in my pictures...(like in my painting work) I'm not reactionnary, i'm 29 years old, i live in 1998, i'm using all kind cameras ( nikon SLR, blad system,video etc...) but i mainly use leica Ms and his "engagement" The term of "engagement" is for me, associated to leica M : Because except for the high quality of Leitz optics (a really good reason to be a M user) and the collectible value attraction (leica Ms are, above all, tools to make photography), i think that coming in a leica M system is a "engagement" : (expensive (but top quality..okay), goodbye AF, goodbye hightech algorythm of metering, no "Canikonics" specials program and other futuristic features...) the M6 TTL seems to be the last improvement in M system...and so controversial finaly, going back to the roots was beneficial to me, it help me to be more "sensitiv", to sense the things, not necessarily be "hanged" at a computer, "just try and be able", like said recently another luger... to see my stuff (i recently updated it with a new page) http://home.claranet.fr/fluid/photos.html