[Leica] Re: Changing face of photoraphy

[MEB at GoodPhotos.com (Michael Eric Berube)]

Dave R wrote in part unto the Void re: the D2X...
>$5K is a lot for a camera body.

Yep. About 1.5 weddings. A D2 is NOT a camera that is designed for hobbyists 
to 
take happy snaps. It is designed for people who can expense its purchase and 
use it to pay for itself. Give it a year or two and it will very likely be 
as 
'affordable' as the D2h is now.

>Shooting with film is like shooting with a sniper rifle. I put in a
>decent amount of effort before each shot. I usually come close to a
>bullseye. Shooting digital is like using a submachine gun. I think
>I'm more effective as a sniper.  Or maybe I need to spend more time
>chimping and deleting.

IF you spend the same 'decent amount of effort before each shot' when you 
are 
shooting with a D2, it will provide you with every bit as much the 
photography 
experience (and quality images) as photography with an IIIf (or an M7 for 
that 
matter) will. Just because capturing (latent) images is 'free' with a 
digital, 
doesn't alleviate a photographer's responsibility to start with the best 
capture possible.

I just read someone quoting Baron Von Ricthofen as saying "It's not the 
crate, 
but the man inside the crate."

I'm on digest so please pardon me if 800 others have posted this same 
sentiment 
before I got to. :)

Carpe Lumen,
Michael Eric Berube
GoodPhotos.com
AnotherMaine.com