Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Summicron1@aol.com wrote: > what to do? >>well, you COULD shoot film, I suppose, and leave the computer at home. >>Learn to use fewer lenses (more lenses increases the odds of having the >>wrong lens on the camera) and learn to take pictures with what you have, >>instead of always feeling that you need to always be ready for every >>option of every image.Learn to make the equipment you do have fit the >>situation. Trust your abilities instead of letting equipment be a >>crutch.<<<<<<<<<< Jim Laurel responded: Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: extra photo bag on plane > ...And when you find yourself back in Redmond meeting with your editor at > MSN after explaining why you couldn't send your dispatches because you > only brought one computer and it failed, or that your only digital SLR > body jammed and you didn't have a backup, or that you couldn't get the > wide interior shot in that mosque he wanted because you didn't have a > 16-35, you'll be hearing that he won't require your services for his next > feature.<<<<<<<<> Hi Jim, First of all Summicron1@aol.com obviously isn't a professional photographer who's had to shoot around the world. Certainly under the conditions as applied these days. I mean if he's talking about amateurs that's fine. However! Some of us are working professional photojournalist and his comments are absolutely ludicrous telling us what to do when we earn our living at it. Particularly with someone who's travelled the world on working assignments for 50 years! Nor does it sound like he's ever worked for photo editors " WHO DO NOT ACCEPT ANY EXCUSES FOR NOT HAVING PICTURES! " Unless you've been killed! Even then they'll ask were his "cameras re-covered?" They want the last films you shot! Hell that makes for a more exciting Obit! ted