Re: [Leica] slowing down the process does not make for better pictures

[clifford wright <skidoophoto@yahoo.com>]

A truer rant was never ranted.
Clif Wright
- --- Kyle Cassidy <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> re camera buying:
> 
> >I think using a screw mount Leica can not only be
> >cheaper than getting a Bessa, it also gives you a
> real
> >education in Photography.  You need to think about
> >almost every step of the process and the slowing
> down
> >helps you make better pictures.  [snip]
> 
> nooooooooooooooooo! if you want slow shooting shell
> out $200 and buy a 4x5
> and you can spend all day realizing you left the
> dark slide in, or left the
> dark slide out, or forgot to cock the shutter, or
> you can't remember if you
> loaded the holders or not, set the horizontal and
> vertical tilt, monkey with
> a 20 pound tripod, oops, not level, (twist twist,
> twist twist) still not
> level, dang (twist twist, twist twist).
> 
> this is one thing i hear again and again on this
> list, but i still don't
> understand and think is a lot of hooey, to be
> honest, that bugs are features
> and that if you have to look through one finder to
> focus and another one to
> frame and it takes two minutes to rewind and two
> minutes to load and you
> have to pull a luna pro out of your pocket to meter
> and the shutter speeds
> are on two seperate dials and there's no hot shoe
> that the combination of
> those quirks in some cabbalistic camera gestalt,
> result in "making better
> pictures" because it keeps you from taking a photo
> faster. the whole idea of
> the 35mm camera in the first place was to allow
> photographers to take photos
> FASTER and the whole evolution of the leica camera
> line (even the lamentably
> slowly evolved M) has to been to facilitate taking
> photos FASTER. "need to
> think about every step in the process" i think also
> is some strange
> thinking. it's like saying "having a mechanical
> watch is better than having
> a quartz watch because you have to remember to wind
> it and take it into the
> jewelers once a month to have it set because it
> gains and loses and that
> improves your memory and makes you really understand
> time."
> 
> if you want a "real education in photography" take
> some classes with eddie
> adams or eugene richards or joe mcnalley, or mary
> ellen mark, or the great
> photographer of your choice. more likely than not,
> they'll stick a canon
> rebel in your hands and send you out into the world
> to think about the end
> product and not the process by which the light makes
> it to the film.
> 
> feel free to discount me, i'm just ranting.
> 
> kc
> 
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