Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Johnny, > I had photographed this spot using the 4x5 camera several times, with > pitifully poor results. One day just after I bought the CP5000 I had it > in my cycle pannier as I was cycling to work, and as I passed through > this spot, I thought to myself, damn, that's the picture. I pulled out > the digi and framed it on the LCD (it was bright so I could hardly see) > and when I got to work, uploaded it, and there it was. I can't tell you > how many sheets of 4x5 I wasted trying to do the same thing. Hum. I'm not sure what the problem you had with your 4x5...but there is some irony that you accept a consumer digicam P&S image over a 4x5 as "the picture". > What you discover is that sometimes when you loosen your grip on the > compositional aspects of the photographic game, rather than the > compositions becoming weaker, they become stronger, more complex, more > confounding and confrontational, more troubling even. I hear the same thing can be induced by taking methaqualone... ;-) Regards, Austin - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html