Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/17

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Subject: [Leica] multiple cameras
From: "Tim Spragens" <t.spragens@cityweb.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:39:40 +0100

Thanks, Mike, Ted and Tina for the answers. The differences in 
perspective here is usually enlightening, and often amusing.

My question was part utilty and part practicality of carrying multiple
cameras. I have a hard time seeing myself decked out like a leica 
christmas tree ready to plunder. As I haven't walked around with 
more than two cameras at a time, I wondered at the advantages. 
When using two, one is usually loaded color, the other B/W. 
Though I do all my processing these days digitally and could easily 
work a color shot as B/W, I prefer to think of an image as one or 
the other and record it on an appropriate film. Other than 
inside/outside problems, a roll  usually doesn't last long enough for 
the light to change drastically; if it does, I can reload.

Someone who is shooting at a fixed location can take a steamer 
trunk full of equipment to have precisely the proper combination of 
film and lens (format, what have you). From what I understand 
about Tina's work, she needs mobility. This may be what most 
intriqued me, because what I do is mostly mobile as well. I don't 
even like a small bag if I can avoid it.

I have the luxury of not shooting to please an art director or editor.
My shots are opportunistic, and I certainly have missed capturing 
images on film because I didn't have, for example, a 180 with me at 
the time, or possibly the camera to mount it. Some images are 
burned in memory that I do wish were likewise burned on film, but 
I'm the only one that realises the loss. Would I have been there 
anyway if I had full kit in tow?

I can easily see myself as a camera collector (not investor, they all
get carried and used). I hope I wasn't just looking for an excuse to
buy more bodies...
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Tim Spragens
http://www.borderless-photos.com

Replies: Reply from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> (Re: [Leica] multiple cameras)