[LEICA] The Joys of an M

[jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)]

Ted and Nathan:

I have gotten some very good images on my Panasonic Digilux II, but the
shutter lag is just murder for me for anything spontaneous. Street
Photography is daunting enough, but the feeling that my camera is not
responding at all is really disheartening. I could always take Sonny's
advice and turn much of the automation off, but having auto white
balance and autofocus is what gives me the good results. That means I
resort to taking the Pentax dSLR or Olympus dSLR. That means weight.
Grrr....

I just received 200 rolls of Agfa from B&H. Let me put a dent in that,
and I'll get back to digital in between rolls.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




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[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ted
Grant
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 12:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [LEICA] The Joys of an M


Nathan Wajsman offered:
Subject: Re: [LEICA] The Joys of an M


> You do not need to wade through 250 crap images if you don't shoot 
> >them
> in the first place...I find that I am shooting more or less the way I
> 
> did with film.<<<

Hi Nathan,
I think what happens when we begin to use a digital camera is a form of
an 
unconcious shooting spree due to the fact we don't keep changing film.
And 
we don't have to pay for film and processing. ;-)

I feel this is an act of exposing that goes with the first few times of 
digital use. Then when we realize ..."my gosh I've shot 300 frames!" as
we 
look at the computer screen, there's this kind of "Oh damn now look what
I 
have to wade through!" :-(

But, how many of us have shot 10 rolls of 36 exposures in one day and
never 
thought about editing 360 frames? Or put a loupe too 10 sheets of
contacts 
looking for the keepers?

As Jeffery put it, > Although digital is convenient, I hate having to
wade 
through 250 semi-crap images to find the one keeper.<<<<

But Jeffery digital isn't any different than shooting film once one gets

over the "fun shoot lots factor" that sort of comes with the initial
days of 
"playing with" the new digital camera.

I know at the beginning I blew a pile of frames because I sort of
blasted 
away like crazy trying all kinds of shots I'd never have bothered with
on 
film. And digital has such a high "fun factor" to shoot one almost can't

help themselves clicking away.

ERGO: a lot of "crappie frames!" But then, didn't we create these
ourselves? 
I mean the camera didn't do them by accident.

Nathan said:
>Yes, I do shoot perhaps 50% more images, but the increase is accounted 
>for
>by a greater willingness to take a chance with marginal > lighting or a

>different composition, not mindless firing of the shutter.<

I'm about the same in digital frames shot as what I would on film,
usually a 
lot. But when I'm shooting film I'm usually working 3 cameras at the
same 
time so this probably evens out film to digital.

ted




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