Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some know their craft cold. Others don't. But all know that there's a difference between, say, a forte-piano and a harpsichord, or horsepower achieved via turbo assist and the same horsepower via a bigger engine. I agree that if you choose your tools well and learn their limitations you can minimize lots of (real) problems. It's just that the fact that you can learn enough (consciously or not) to avoid them doesn't mean that they don't exist. Amateurs are often totally unaware that the problems that experts routinely handle even exist. There's a reason that many professions are learned via apprenticeships. Surgery sounds really easy if you listen to surgeons. Once experts get good, they often forget how they got there. But even surgeons bitch and moan (usually worse, but you know what I mean) when they have to use their skill to overcome equipment difficulties. Mike Quinn JCB wrote: > Concert pianist, race car driver, machinist, > photographer, whatever you can think up, all know their craft cold. So in > the case of a professional photographer, shutter lag differences between > say, an M7 and an R8 are not ever a conscious thought. You just pick it up > and go to work! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html