Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --- 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 _____________________________________________________________ http://HELL.COM - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html