Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have to ditto Mark a thousand percent. In order for me to get used to using my new (April 2001) Leica M6 I take it everywhere and photograph whomever is sitting across from me when I eat out. Often it's family. Sometimes friends. Sometimes a stranger and sometimes an empty seat. No matter...it puts my hands on the camera. Also, I use it DAILY to photograph my daughter's senior year of high school...I've not gotten these images up on the web yet...but I've not missed a day so far. No matter there, either. Just making up a project and giving myself an excuse to get the camera in my hands was what I needed. I think I'm dreadfully slow focusing with the Leica but at least I'm working on it. And the negs...oh LORD what a treat when it's darkroom time. Bang that sucker up, take some shots and LIVE BABY! Life's toooooo short to sit on the sidelines (unless of course you're shooting it) Lea - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@markrabiner.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Briefcase (Point and Shoot) : Mark Pope wrote: : > : > Hello Don, : > : > I can't disagree with you, but I have tried getting my M in my briefcase. : > I must either a) have too small a case or b) carry way too much stuff in it. : > Anyway, things have gone walkabout from our office - mobile telephones, : > PDAs, that sort of thing. One of the many downsides of working in a large : > open plan office. I wouldn't want my M to go the same way. I prefer to : > keep it with me all of the time. I don't mind so much about losing the GR1 : > this way, although I would still be pretty gutted. A new M and 35 ASPH or : > 50 'cron would be a helluva lot to replace in one go, even with insurance : > cover. Being a relatively new M user - I bought in March this year, I still : > haven't acquired the slighty more laissez faire attitude that seems to come : > with longer term ownership. Yes, I know It's a tool and a damn fine one at : > that, but I still feel nervous about losing or damaging £2500 worth of gear : > in one hit. I think it was Kyle that said that once you have dinged your : > camera it doesn't seem to matter after that - I haven't got there yet... : > : > All the best : > : > Mark : > : : Mark P! if you check the archives I've said this to a few people. : It's my ongoing strong opinion... : : Leica M's are a camera and way of shooting very unlike others. They take : a lot of getting used to. : To really appreciate what it can do for you you have to marry it. : You cant just visit it on weekends, put it up in an apartment and expect : it to put out for you. : : One nice thing about people who put their websites in their salutary : thing on their Emails is you can cut through the rhetoric and find out : where they are really coming from by checking out their results. : You are getting some great shots .... : with your favorite system, the Bronica ETRSi for portraits and Landscape : Your Nikon with Tamron lens : All Architectural photos with a Bessa with "Bessa" glass : and last AND least, Leica with Leica glass!!! : I'd throw away your Nikonish - Bronicaish and Bessaish things. Put them : in storage for a year. : : "When I was a Nikon, I spake as a Nikon, I understood as a Nikon, I : thought as a Nikon: but when I became a Leica, I put away Nikonish things." : Book of Rabs 13:11 : : Put your Leica around your neck and plan on wearing it for a year. : I promise you at the end of that year you'll have some great shots and a : slightly banged up camera. : You'll be amazed how much you can do with one simple system. : : I pretty much did the same a few years back I'm back using my : Hasselblads again when the pleasure arrives, but my Nikons still are : sleeping. Hibernating. : : I have certainly forsaketh zooms, that's for darn sure. : : : Mark Rabiner : Portland, Oregon USA : http://www.markrabiner.com : -- : To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html : - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html