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

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Amenandwomen.;-)
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From: clifford wright <skidoophoto@yahoo.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] slowing down the process does not make for better
pictures


> 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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