Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark -- Having written a little screed against fussy ideas of grammar in another post just now, I still must tell you Mark that this (following) sentence doesn't quite say what you intended it to say: <<Though devoid of any humor intentional or otherwise. I recommend it. >> Indeed I know this sentence to be untrue, empirically. Vince On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > David Rodgers wrote: > > > >> Since the world has gone digital it seems that camera manufacturers have > >> placed less emphasis on viewing, whether pentaprism or rangefinder. > > > > It was AF that killed viewfinder quality, not digital. > > > > Doug Herr > > Birdman of Sacramento > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > > I'm gung ho and overwhelmed by the wonderfulness of my digital nikon > viewfinders in recent years; in particular my archaic D200 Hockypuck which > I've been using as my main axe of late. Always having it with me despite > the > extra weight and bulk. I like the options - which is putting it mildly. And > Frankly did not have a grasp of how intensive they really were. > Cameras nowadays are far ahead of the ones they made in the 90's. It's > like > 2001 has really hit us. > > Having a real groundglass on my film Nikons I took as a given and now > that's > not the case. Its a bit disconcerting but there are percs to the way things > look through cameras in this more modern era. > I've been experimenting with the various options- > Every day for a couple of weeks now I'm doing quite a bit of shooting with > some new settings about every day and then immediately coming back and > loading them onto my laptop that I'm typing into now. And seeing how these > modifications have changed my shooting and the results. > > I got a book to help me. Or rather I've got it out and am using it after > having it for awhile. > Its a Magic Lantern Guides: Nikon D200 by Simon Stafford for twenty bucks > - > http://www.larkbooks.com/mlg > http://www.larkbooks.com/catalog?isbn=9781579908867 > > At the large Barnes and Noble I hang out in across from Julliard (the > motherload ship store perhaps) they seem to have most the guides put out > by > most the companies. If I was auditioning for a job in a camera store this > is > where I'd hang out. > I page through them for free paying for them with the price of an espresso > or vanilla soda and having spent some time with all of them I can say the > rest of them really don't do too much for me. They seem junky. I've even in > the past bought these other series for bodies; in other lifetimes. > > The Nikon D200 Digital Field Guide by David D. Busch seemed cartoonish and > junky. But at the store this year for free I've also looked at - > The Pip Expanded Guide to the Nikon D200 by Ross Hoddinott seemed odd and > usesless. > The Nikon D200 Dbook : Your Interactive Guide to SLR Photography with the > Nikon D200 Camera by Helmut Kraus, Rainer Dorau, Rudolf Krahm no doubt > didn't click with me somehow. > I looked at all of them and at every bookstore I ever go to usually. > > And its amazing that you find a book on the bookshelf any more on this > particular body which went out for the D300 two and a half years ago. But > when one book disappears they order another one to replace it so People not > only still USE these relics of the early digital age: they also want to > really know how they work on not just a surface level. > I do think a lot of photography gets done by a whole lot of very good > people; pros, and if you say half the time "what does that button do?" > they'll say "I have no idea. I avoid pressing it if at all possible". > Do you know where your manual is tonight? > > The Magic Lantern Guides series seems to me for my tastes and sensibitiles > to be far far better than the other ones. > They look great feel great and read great. > Just a tad heavy for such a small book though. Must the clay content of the > paper is my theory. > I'm getting better shots now that I'm much more aware of the amazing > capabilities of my camera. As they are being presented to me in a way that > I > can absorb. Though devoid of any humor intentional or otherwise. > I recommend it. However this particular series doses not seem to have Leica > bodies. > The publishing company though, Lark (show us your Lark book) makes the well > known to Leica Nuts the Brian Bower books. Or at least this one: > the 35 dollar Leica M Digital Photography: M8/M8.2. > And knowing this guy (which I don't really) they'll be an M9 version any > day > now. > Publisher: Lark > Published: June 2009 > 192 pages > ISBN: 1-60059-193-0 > ISBN13: 9781600591938 > $34.95 US > $37.95 Canadian > Paper with flaps > 8 1/2 X 11 > A different kind of much larger more intensively color illustrated hand > book. A two handed book. He showed the LHSA some slides once or twice. The > fella does not fool around in his spare time but has been on top of the > whole Leica thing for decades Traveling widely getting enviable shots with > the latest Leica gear and using them most intelligently. Though full bleeds > in books I hope to see more of a thing of the past. When the photo is the > same size as the page who who knows what the original cropping was. > > > > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >