Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adam brilliantly opined... - --- I think most of use seldom use more than what digital gives us. Do you put your M on a tripod to shoot or only shoot at 1/1000th? If you don't are you REALLY getting the full benefit of that Leica glass? I don't think we do, I think we slip into the domain of digital imaging simply by hand holding and shooting at slower shutter speeds, so we never capture what we might otherwise achieve. Adam - -- Allow me to be blunt, and a wee bit rude - I rarely, if ever - see images posted here - and I of course include my own in this comment - that could not easily have been created with virtually any other brand of interchangeable lens camera. For that matter, most of the iconic which have, over the decades, been shot with Leicas could just as easily be shot with any other brand of camera. As Adam notes, it is the rare photographer indeed who uses the equipment/film/processing/printing combination necessary to eek out that Leica extra. That doesn't mean that people should toss their Leicas and grab digitals - - obviously there is more to the camera/photographer combination than image resolving power. There are many things about Ms which may contribute to the production of great images. But Adam is smack on target when he says that most Leica produced images could easily be duplicated with good digital equipment because most Leica produced images do not begin to require the most out of Leica equipment. B. D. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html