Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Touche mon ami. - -----Original Message----- From: dan states [mailto:dstate1@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 2:29 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] AF, a FAD? Jeeze...It's not that hard... Wow! You sound angry. By the way, I had to trade in the horse and buggy. I kept getting held up at the toll booths > > >Diatribe Dan states wrote: <edited> > >It's a dangerous crutch. Yank that safety net from most modern snap > >shooters and they are like beached whales. > > > >Additionally, the isolation from effort that automation gives puts a >blanket > >of ignorance over the process of photograpy. > > > >Many modern users don't seem to want to take the time or effort needed to > >master their craft. It is to their own disadvantage. > > > >I do not recognize an upturn in the quality or level of meaning of > >photography in general since the advent of full automation. Indeed the > >opposite seems to be the case. Once any snapshooter can produce results > >that are at least 'technically' proficient you put the future of > >photography in the hands of people who's motives are less art and more > >profit. > > > >Diatribe over... Dan > >Nonsense, if the resulting photograph is excellent no one cares if it were >artistically created with a manual settings camera, or done via an AF SLR, >or for that matter a P&S. > >As to labeling those that use technology "beached whales out of a safety >net" that is a large assumption on your part. I hope it makes you feel >better than you have justified your MF dinosaur. Should I assume from your >comment that the thousands of photojournalists and many Nat Geo photogs >that >use AF SLRs are simply poor fools and lousy photographers? However, >according to your logic if they were using a Leica MF camera they would be >good photographers, correct? Interesting. BTW, do you use drive a car or >continue to ignore technology and use a horse and buggy? > >Peter K _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com