Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]----- Original Message ----- >>On Jul 16, 2008, at 5:52 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote: >> I find an M to be easier to use (or should I say very much less >> frustrating) than a DSLR with all the menus, buttons, and the mind of >> it's own. >> With a Leica, set shutter, set aperture, focus, and expose. >> I like to tell the camera what to do. There is no camera I like >> using more than my M3. ......................................... From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@frozenlight.eu>: >I don't know. You can make it easy or you can make it hard. Every time >I have bought a DSLR, I set it up the way I like it: shoot RAW, use >only the center focus point, aperture priority. And that's it. From >then on, the only controls I need to touch are the aperture selection >(a thumbwheel) and changing the ISO when the light changes. I don't >mess around with white balance or anything like that. >I simply do not see any reason why I would ever shoot a roll of 35mm >again. The results from my DSLR are better, I do not need to carry a >bunch of film around, and I do not need to play with chemicals (or pay >someone else to do it). - Nathan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think the satisfaction you have with your equipment shows in your pictures. I'm in a different situation, where others tell me what to photograph at least 40 hours a week (and during parts of the year, maybe 50+ hours), always in color, and it is relaxing to practice chemical photography off duty. Most of what I shoot for myself is B&W, so I like using my old cameras, and (still) enjoy getting in the darkroom. I use manual exposure on the DSLRs 90% of the time. I hate it when the camera gives me different exposures for pictures in a situation where the lighting doesn't change, only the composition of each shot. I figure, if I have to monitor what the camera is doing, I might as well set the exposure myself. Then the pictures will have consistency. The only camera I've trusted on AE is my OM-2n, which over the years has mostly been loaded with transparency film! I may have to carry film around, but thankfully, not big batteries. ;~) Disclosure: I was tempted by the Olympus 420 + flat lens because of its small size, but I'm not prepared to spend money on a digital camera yet. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Information Technology Services University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Office Phone: 414 229-6525 | E-mail: amr3@uwm.edu Department Phone: 414 229-4282 http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/