Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Rob, I understand your situation. I've been shooting with a Leica for a short time, and the first few months were very difficult, coming, as I had, from years of using SLR cameras. Compounding the difficulty was that I didn't shoot with the Leica a lot, and I was constantly going from the rangefinder to the SLR, sometimes using both on the same shoot. As you've discovered, the cameras, and the techniques for using them, are very different. However, after a few months I started using the Leicas more often - almost daily - and I feel a lot more comfortable with them. I don't believe two months is long enough to overcome SLR habits and to develop good techniques and skills for using a Leica, especially if you don't use a Leica every day, or close to it. Give it some more time. Use the camera as often as possible. You can always sell it later on if it's really not the camera for you. - -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:belinkoff@earthlink.net "Grain is the brushstroke of photography." - Man Ray Rob Millard wrote: > > It is with a certain amount of ambivalence that I offer the following > for sale. I bought this equipment 2 months ago, finally succumbing to > the allure, mystique, call it what you will, of Leica. I have been (and > still am) a long-time Nikon user and mostly take what I would call > "considered" snapshots working in situations where things were changing > and in motion. I use an F100 most of the time, but also own a FE2 and a > digital Nikon. > Will also accept reasonable arguments from LUG group members as to why I > shouldn't sell.