[Leica] IMG: Blue Angels/Easy/Hard

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

The interesting message here is that there are different types of
photography, just like there are different types of sport, or different
types of transportation. Yet too often we try and paint all photography
with the same color brush. Worse, that color is 18% gray, which is
pretty boring. 

DaveR  

-----Original Message-----
From: Jayanand Govindaraj [mailto:jayanand@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 9:41 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Blue Angels/Easy/Hard

Alan,
In your case I would think it would be relaxing not to go anywhere near
photography!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3@uwm.edu>
wrote:

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> ----- 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
>
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> 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
>
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