Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 4/5/02 abridge@idea-processing.com wrote: >It's [ie photography is] ALL about control. yes and no it's about seeing really, for me control is one aspect of that but control can also destroy certain kinds of seeing I have tried and failed to take certain kinds of pictures with the 4x5 because once the image was there on the GG i tried to 'improve' it with disastrous results. folks here know I'm a manual everything zone system homebrew tinkering kind of guy. I don't actually *own* a film camera which contains a light meter of any kind, much less any automation. My T90 was always used in manual mode. but what has been the single biggest influence on my photography in the last year? a digital point and shoot (well, sort of... a Nikon 5000). curiously this is neither easier or harder to use for me than any of my manual cameras... I guess I had internalized the manual process to such an extent that it had disappeared. The autofocus is definitely slower, but hey. However, the difference is just that I started to *see* in a different way with this camera to a certain extent it is like having a point-and-shoot 4x5 camera, something I have aspired to for years sometimes it is a pleasure to surrender certain kinds of control - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html