Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The issue for me is not how the R8 appears to my eyes. It's how it looks to the people I'm photographing. If one is photographing pro athletes at big time sports events or executives at scheduled sessions, hell, bring in the motorized super SLR or even an 8 x 10 view camera, two assistants, a bank of remote triggered lights and a couple of scantily clad dancing girls -- up go your fees, & the clients will love you for it. A few years ago Modern Photography arranged a photo shoot with some models, testing a traditional motorized Nikon against a quieter new model with integral motor. The models preferred the noisier older camera: it made them feel important to have all that banging and slapping going on (no puns intended), all that jagged gear pointed their way. If you are photographing people who are inherently modest or even shy, who are reluctant to be photographed and guard themselves from the rest of the big bad world, you want to operate discretely. It has been proven to me time and again that pointing an M camera and shooting off a few frames will get me little attention and frequently a real keeper of a photo. Point a current SLR with all of its sinister contours even for a half minute and any country man in a pristine location will understand that there's a nefarious purpose afoot. Bye bye pictures. Emanuel Lowi Montreal - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html