Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]SLR? M6? Anybody notice how on the TV show COPS a two person crew with a gigantic betacam and a boom microphone burst into people's homes and NOBODY EVER says "whats with the camera?" or "am I on tv?" Who's that NYC photographer who teaches a class in street photography and makes his class go out into central park and get completely in people's faces with an SLR? I think someone on the list took the course and posted a nice review of it. 20 minutes into the class, everybody was out in the park photographing strangers from five feet away. Mary Ellen Mark does street photography with a freaking Hasselblad. I don't think it's the size of the camera as much as the attidude of the photographer that makes a street photographer. Weegee, for that matter, did it with a 4x5. If you wanted to be completely invisible you could use one of those nikon coolpix with the twisty backs, they have no shutter, they're completely silent, and you're never holding a viewfinder to your eye. Heck, you could even keep the camera in a paper bag.... It's not about being invisible..... Kc