Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wimps, you all! Watkins coating his 20"x24" glass plates under the stars in Yosemite Valley for the next day's shooting gets the Manly Photoman awards!!! Either that or the North Vietnamese war photogs who only had 50mm lenses and their feet to get close to action, and who carried two dishes and two bags of powder for dev and fix, developing their film at night by pulling it through the dishes without a tank or reel (using the jungle at night for a darkroom), because the heat and humidity will destroy the latent images. Tom Schofield On Sep 28, 2006, at 5:19 PM, B. D. Colen wrote: > Glass plate, Eric - and here I always thought you were a Manly > Photoman; > Real photographers shoot on tin! ;-) > > > On 9/28/06 7:44 PM, "Eric" <ericm@pobox.com> wrote: > >> Philip: >> >>> The digital DOES have a few issues >>> that I don't like: warm up time, battery life, the crop factor >>> and a small >>> viewfinder. >> >> Those aren't drawbacks of digital. Those are drawbacks of digital >> P&S >> cameras. >> >> My 5D starts instantly. The battery is good for a couple thousand >> raw >> images (roughly 24 gig). The crop factor is 1. A 35 lens is a >> 35. The >> viewfinder is no smaller than other viewfinders. >> >> I can't quite convince myself to sell my M6 even though I'm using >> it less >> and less. It's just hard to let go. It's actually an M6TTL. >> Leica had >> problems with some models eating batteries. So I'll wait and let >> somebody >> else do the beta testing before I jump on the M8 ship. >> >> Digital is easier. Anybody can do it. Just like 35mm opened up >> photography >> to the masses and made everybody experts. If you're not shooting >> on glass >> plates, are you *really* making photographs? :) >> >> >> >> -- >> Eric >> http://canid.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information