[Leica] Listen to the heart or the brain?

[sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)]

Ted,  you are absolutely correct. IF, Richard is, like you, a very busy 
professional, on the move and trying to capture a visual story on a very 
tight time schedule and deadlines, constantly under pressure and needing to 
rely absolutely on instinct in every photographic move.

With all respect due to one of my great heros (that's you), if Richard is, 
like me, a photographer not under intense pressure amd somewhat relaxed in 
seeing the world before me and on occasion maybe even a little bit 
contemplative in my approach, then identical gear is much less a mandate.

Respectfully, (yes, really!)

Seth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Listen to the heart or the brain?


> Richard asked:
> Subject: [Leica] Listen to the heart or the brain?
>
>
>>I have a .72 M7, I'd like a .85 body...
>> > My brain says another M7
>> My heart says MP
>> My pocket book says WTF, get a M6.
>> > Arrrgghhh...<,
>
> Richard,
> A couple of things. Usually I'd say "heck man go with your heart!" ;-) But 
> if you already have one Leica M and are about to add to it with a 
> different viewfinder, without question buy the exact same body model and 
> body action.
>
> There's nothing more frustrating than working with two or three M's that 
> do not work in unison with your fingers and experience intuition. No 
> matter how bright something else is, or as I see a number of other posts 
> with positives for other body models. If your fingers are accustomed to 
> moving and adjusting the camera as though you're breathing, then all of a 
> sudden you have to learn to breath a new way when instinct is established 
> in the use of the older one? Trust me you'll get right ticked off if you 
> shoot in a hurry.
>
> Given I've always worked with 3 M's on most assignments, I unfortunately 
> had to work with one M7 and 2 M6's for a short period before the other 
> M7's arrived and it was, quite frankly a huge pain in the butt! :-(
>
> So from experience and fingers trained to respond intuitively with the 
> M6's after 15 years use I screwed-up settings because they weren't 
> identical cameras. And as soon as the remaining M7's arrived the handling 
> mistakes disappeared immediately.
>
> Twins mon ami, twins! In body and the seeing change becomes natural as 
> soon as you look through the viewfinder.
>
> ted
>
>
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