Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Available PAW, week 9!
From: colin <noctilux@stealth.hell.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 18:15:27 -0800 (PST)

- --- Mark Rabiner <mark@markrabiner.com> wrote:
>
>I think if someones going to have a damn Canon EOS shot on his paw it
>should be indicated as such in advance [OT] to those of us or are on the
>Leica users group with no interest in such things and can be saved the
>trouble of looking at it. It's not a rangefinder camera. 

LOL.  PAW project been goin on for two years now and Rabiner wants us to start using just Leicas.  Too bad!

>
>But to be a bit harsh I'm going to have to say that "alternate" shots of
>the trucks with not the grill in focus but the windshield are in my
>opinion not alternates at all but obvious failures. 
>Not having the grills in focus is plainly annoying. 
>Why have those in there? 
>Is this where the camera automatically focused at? AF issues! Who the
>hell cares? 

Prior critics, obviously inferior to your quality, opined that they were in fact interesting.  Realizing that photographers are often not their own best editors, I went with it. Perhaps they were unaware of the equipment that had been used.  Ah, well. 

>
>I have no patience at finding myself looking at Canon EOS micromotor CPU
>baloney photography.
>It's the opposite of what Leica is all about. The antithesis.

What if I told you I focused manually, set the exposure manually, and used a hand-held meter? Oh, and no tripod, either.  I'm pretty good like that. 

>
>Looking out your "Available darkness" site i see you've got lots of
>cameras to play with Colin. I'd master the use if one of them.
>Your "Alternates" show us you've not come close to mastering the use of
>your EOS.
>
>Available darkness photography require the intimate awareness of every
>nuance of ones specially selected equipment.
>It's not about playing around with a bunch of different cameras.
>

So um, what web site should I post my pictures to when I'm just playing around with a bunch of different cameras?  I suppose I should register availablecameraequipment.com and use that.  Hmm, thanks for the idea, Mark! You're not half bad after all! :D

>
>Mark Rabiner
>Portland, Oregon USA
>http://www.markrabiner.com
>--

regards, 
colin
noctilux@hell.com
http://www.availabledark.com


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