Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]re Tripods & slow film >> Rebuttals anyone??<<<<<<<< Only half a rebuttal! I have no problem with tripods and slow film (though haven't tried it yet for street shooting... don't worry, I will, it sounds like a neat idea) but I also kind of think then once you start down that path you are inexorably drawn to other formats and other systems. I, for example, have decided to shortcircuit the whole darn thing by buying a 4x5 camera to get it out of my system. I went out and bought VIEW CAMERA magazine, thinking, this is gonna have a lot of boring photographs in it, and opened it up to find a staggeringly beautiful and inspiring spread on Brazilia that really got my juices flowing. The corollary of this is not 'never use a leica on a tripod' but 'exploit the leica-ness of the leica'. For example, you will look in vain for a f/1.4 lens on a view camera or a medium format system for that matter, so just to annoy Mark Rabiner I suggest very strongly that you shoot traditional landscape matter handheld at f/1.4 using your leicas and see what the result is. Here, from the ill-fated PROJECT JERUSALEM, are a couple of examples of photographs in that tradition that i don't think I could have taken with any other camera, all handheld and mostly wide open with the 50/1.4. (you may have to crank your monitor brightness). http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/projectjerusalem/n8/pages/002.html http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/projectjerusalem/lincoln/pages/001.html http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/projectjerusalem/lincoln/pages/009.html - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com