Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]People love to make things more complicated than they are..LUG members included. We look past the reality that the concept of PHOTOGRAPHY IS SIMPLE. It is light, and time....That is all...How complicated we want to make this simple equation! We get so wrapped up in the mumbo-jumbo we actually think you NEED a microprocessor to make a picture. We have become technologists for the sake of technology. It's a dangerous crutch. Yank that safety net from most modern snap shooters and they are like beached whales. Additionally, the isolation from effort that automation gives puts a blanket of ignorance over the process of photograpy. Many modern users don't seem to want to take the time or effort needed to master their craft. It is to their own disadvantage. I do not recognize an upturn in the quality or level of meaning of photography in general since the advent of full automation. Indeed the opposite seems to be the case. Once any snapshooter can produce results that are at least 'technically' proficient you put the future of photography in the hands of people who's motives are less art and more profit. Diatribe over... Dan > >At 09:51 AM 03/05/99 -0700, you wrote: > >Eric/Mark: > > > >Face it guys. You are dinosaurs with MF cameras that keep justifying >your > >using it. If the Leica were so good and there was a REAL competitive >edge > >to the single digit percetages a leica lens yields over Canon and Nikon, > >then all the photogs would be using R8s wouldn't they? But apparently, >we > >all continue to justify what we own. > > >Peter K > >In the Land of the Dinosaurs > > Peter, explain to us all why you need AF and how it allows you to >make better photos then someone who uses a manual focus camera. > > > >Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca> >St. John's, Newfoundland. >http://www.straylight.ca/locke >---------------------------------- >TOUCHED BY FIRE: doctors without borders in a third world crisis. >McClelland & Stewart Canada. ISBN#0-7710-5305-3 >http://www.straylight.ca/touchedbyfire.htm > > _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com