Re: [Leica] Dave Beckerman has switched to Leica

[Mike Gil <dtt2150@yahoo.com>]

Im not a mind reader so tell me what your thinking.

Now can a Leica rangefinder make a good photographer a
better one? Maybe, maybe people prefer images created
with Leica rangefinder more than with other glass.  An
if this subjectively makes them a better photog in
peoples mind the better for the photog.  I was
re-reading Jonathan Eastland book the Leica M
Compendium and the process he went in sorting his old
slides and rediscovering the Leica look in his
photographs.  They just popped out at him.

I shoot with Hasselblads, Leica M & R's, and Nikons. 
And if you believe me or not people can always tell
which ones where taken with the Leica M.  They say its
different, it gives them an unique look, they almost
feel like they are their, it makes them look deeper
into the photograph.  I don't think I use a
significant different technique when I shoot with
different glass or format, its has to be the Leica.  I
know this is only peoples opinions, a chart won't show
it but isn't what people feel, what we are really
interested in.

I just acquired a Yashica 124G and can't wait to see
what results I'll get.  Can it make me give up my
Hasselblads?  I'm holding my opinion until I and other
people see the result.  Will it contradict everything
I said.  If it does then I will change my opinion, I
hope we are flexible enough that we can change our
opinion and grow from life experiences.

mg


- --- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Mike Gil wrote:
> > 
> > Please don't make us, use Holga's.  Have you seen
> some
> > of this stuff.  I think seeing light leaks into
> the
> > frame is not a cool thing.  Or the other half
> dozen
> > random effects created by this plastic camera. 
> Most
> > pictures taken with a Holga look like they
> accidently
> > took off the top of the film developing can before
> the
> > film was fixed, smeared vaseline on the lens and
> used
> > the wrong lens hood.  HCB would not be HCB with a
> > Brownie, imagine him showing a portfolio full of
> > technically weak photographs to an editor.
> > 
> 
> First off, I said nothing about Holgas, and I
> suspect you do know
> precisely what I was talking about. Second, and I'd
> better get down in
> the trench and prepare for incoming, but HCB took,
> and published, many
> technically weak photos. So what's your point? That
> using a Leica will
> make a mediocre photographer a good one, and a good
> photographer a great
> one?
> 
> Sorry, but that is complete and utter BS. Using a
> Leica will make a
> mediocre photographer a mediocre photographer with
> sharp images. And a
> good photogapher a good photographer with good
> images.
> 
> Come on, folks...It's a great tool - for some
> people. It's not a magic
> wand.
> 
> B. D.


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