Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/01

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Subject: [Leica] M7 or MP?
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Tue Aug 1 10:18:51 2006
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Gentlemen (Craig,Dick, Luis, Henning, Jeffrey, Ted, Chris, Ruben and  
Richard),

I thank you all for your valuable info.
If I take my shooting style with my M4-2 into consideration (very  
opposite to my digital workflow which is pretty much following Ted's  
KISS principle), I think I'll go for the solid, old style and  
handcrafted feeling of the MP. Very happy to have a meter in it, but  
not more than that.
It 'll help me to think about my shots: a kind of pensative  
interludium from time to time, so to speak. And a wonderfull piece of  
sublime craftsmanship to pass from generation to generation, too.

Amically,
Philippe


Op 1-aug-06, om 16:17 heeft Craig Semetko het volgende geschreven:

> I shoot primarily street photography and in b&w. I actually owned  
> an M7, sold it, and bought an MP. I found that I took many more bad  
> pictures with the M7. The freedom of AE--for me, anyway-- just made  
> for more bad contact sheets. I would set the focus, throw the  
> camera up and shoot things I never would have had I had to think a  
> little. Of course, I could have simply used it on manual, but after  
> using M6's, I never got over the feeling that I was somehow  
> cheating with this camera. That I wasn't really really making the  
> pictures, the camera was. With the MP in my hands, I'm  
> concentrating on what I'm doing all the time, and it shows in my  
> contact sheets. It's a highly personal choice, but I'm very happy  
> now with the MP. And, after holding one, feeling the heft and  
> moving that rewind crank, it's hard to go back to anything else.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Craig
>
> NO ARCHIVE
>
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 2:48 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:
>
>> At 8:45 PM +0200 7/31/06, Philippe Orlent wrote:
>>> Not sure which of both I'd choose.
>>> Any pro's/cons?
>>> I did my Googling homework, but prefer to hear real feedback from
>>> people I kinda know.
>>> I very rarely use a flash.
>>> And it's not about wether or not going digital and forgetting about
>>> analog since obsolete in a few years.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Philippe
>
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