Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike Johnston wrote: <edited> Add me to the minority. I wouldn't use the word "dumb" but I can only think of one great Leica photographer who used flash, Lee Friedlander, and he used it only sometimes (he is quoted somewhere saying he started using flash because he wanted to play with his cameras indoors after dark, and the available light sucked. Well, I guess he didn't use the word "sucked." But anyway, he went on to do some significant work with flash, including some of his nudes and the "Factory Valley" work). Almost all the great Leica photography has been done using available light. <edited> - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's because in Leica's heydays flash was a pain. Nowadays, with fewer using it Leica needed something to attract people and TTL Flash was one feature they added. Mike, now how many "living" great Leica photographers do you know of these days? Fewer than say those using SLRs? Perhaps that is a good reason. After all Leica is long past its heyday but did need something to attract users or at least keep them from going to more modern Rangefinders like the Contax G and perhaps the new Konica Hexar M. Peter K