Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/03

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Subject: RE: [Leica] feb shutterbug
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 13:58:20 -0500

They do indeed. On the other hand, he has always been a rangefinder user. So
go figure.;-)

B. D.



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[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John Straus
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 1:46 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] feb shutterbug


on 1/3/02 5:48 AM, Rei Shinozuka at shino@ubspw.com wrote:

> 3. ralph gibson interview, where he as usual waxes eloquent on leica m:
>
>  I have spent 40 years working with the Leica rangefinder.  The
rangefinder
>  enables one to see what's _outside_ of the frame as well as what's
_inside_
>  of the frame.  You make a decision predicated on the presence and/or the
>  absence of the various aspects of the subject.  With a reflex, the camera
>  determines what is seen, and half the time it's out of focus.  One could
>  follow a reflex around the world and focus it from time to time until it
>  came across a picture.  With a rangefinder you see something, you make
the
>  exposure and you continue to look at what you're seeing.  The rangefinder
>  is ideally matched to the perceptive act, the personal act of perception.
>  I only use a reflex for extreme close-ups.
>
>                             - Ralph Gibson, Shutterbug Interview, Feb 2002

Leica pays him well.... ;)

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