Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And, uh, how many of those Geographic photographers are using Leica Ms with their studio flash units they've dragged up Andes? And how many fashion photographers are using Leica Ms in the studio? How many for that matter are shooting 35 mm anything? ROFLOL! :-) B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark Rabiner Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 6:10 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] For anyone who still thinks that digital isn't really... "B. D. Colen" wrote: > > OH pulllleeeeze....Can't you just seem them all lining up to buy M7s and > "blaze away" with a flash system they can only use on manual when other > manufacturers offer normal sync to at least a 250th - some higher - with > full auto capabilities. > > We all love the M6 and M7 for what they are....not what they aren't. They > are not cameras for use with flash in bright sun - even with the cobbled > together system the M7 now has for high-speed flash work.... > > B. D. > Only on manual? you mean you set the flash to match the distance? I must have forgotten to read the manual! :) Well OK then I'm wrong but to the many photographers like myself who often use a Norman Battery powered flash or Lumidine or something to the effect manual flash is what we're using all the time say for location catalog stuff, fashion. And some of us prefer it in general. Using a manual system to cover an event, wedding or a Reportage deal (if a catalog photographer would also be doing Reportage) might not seem like that big of a jump. We're just not going to be able to deal with stuff rushing towards or away from us very quickly as we would not be able to change the distance setting on the flash as quickly as an Automatic sensor… Another way of looking at it: how often are Normans or Lummides or such batter powered manual strobes still getting dragged along to do a reportage thing? I'd bet it still happens pretty often. I'll bet National Geographic photographers work like this often. I know some now have to have auto use the ugly heavy Quantum thing. I do think of Mimimata and other Life stories from a half century ago but that would seem to be beyond the point. i do think that way of working which the Academic world thought of as prime examples of avaible light photography and turned out to be bounce lighting of flashbulbs or manual strobes has not stopped happening and is still happening. So maybe it depends on which kind of story your covering. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.markrabiner.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html