Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 13/01/2006, at 15:06, Don Dory wrote: > Luis, > No, the herd mentality has set in. [...] > For the heavy shooter obviously the economics change pretty quickly. well, I was joking in part, but your comment pointed some interesting facts. a) People don't want the best thing for them, they just want what their neighbourg already has. b) People don't ask caring your advice, they only want to hear what they are lusting for. c) If you dont know what to say, say new. Recently I was shooting polaroid for fun. It was the spectra film, well balancend color and quite sharp. Someone came around saying that polaroids looked fine but they are very expensive. After a bit of chat I knew that he bought a $300 digicam (his second one), $100 on gadgets, $200 on a little printer and upgraded his computer ($900) to have it all working. He spent $1500 before the first shot but he was pretending that he was shooting for free. I got my last polaroid for $1 on a eb*y auction plus $8 for shipping, paid about $10 for film, still $1481 on my pocket left to shot, so I will have nearly 1500 prints before getting where he was starting and without counting paper etc for the printer. So we have to define what's expensive. Obviously this tale can be reversed easily, and it should be, depending of needs. I wont shoot nothing else than digital if I was working for daily media. About heavy shooters... the old myth/fact that said that as more you shoot, you will become a better photog has settled well, but they forget that when you can preview instantly what you're doing it does not have sense to soot more. If there is no time to fix and understand the how and why no matter how many shoots you make, unless they have fun with it, nothing photographic in it. :) Saludos ----------------------------------------- http://imaginarymagnitude.net/blog/