Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Shooting what?! Do you blow up your photos very large at all? Put them on your walls down the hall? Make a little portfolio which you bring to coffee shops? A discussion of cameras is like a discussion of hammers; fairly meaningless without any application mentioned at all. They are just tools to do a job. The big point is THE JOB!!! Are we photographing Fire Hydrants which we print letter sized and put in little box to show people? In that case or in any case a discussion of what camera to use has much more meaning. We know what you're doing with it. We are always discussing in effect: Which camera to use..... But the sentence is never finished. Its recurrent permanent hanging chads. Which camera to shoot fire hydrants. - to me is a compete sentence; a complete thought. Which can replied to intelligently (I'm getting tired of my ball peen hammer and I'm going to trade it in for a framing hammer.) Meaningless. As we wonder if any framing is really going to be done or any metal is going to be pounded out. In the end its often the case that there is rarely any wood nor metal which enters the situation. Mark William Rabiner > So, I'm going to buy some film and simply start shooting again. It's time > to > find out what the camera and its lenses can do...(not to mention the guy > behind the lens...) >