Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/13

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Hasselbald XPAN II
From: lmc at interlink.es (Luis Miguel Castañeda)
Date: Fri Jan 13 07:42:22 2006
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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
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