Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Another one bites the dust ... (Freddy Mercury/Queen) The best argument for digital I've seen ... (from someone else in the same time bracket in life) Daniel On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Jim Hedger wrote: > Due to constricted time available and the reality of what is keeping me from > doing a lot of shooting. I am going digital. I spent the summer > experimenting with an Olympus c2100 digital and realized the time lag with > film between exposure, development, scanning, cataloguing, photo > manipulating and printing was not working with my lifestyle. During my > college days I had scores of time to shoot, wet develop and print. I loved > every moment. At fifty, a more than full time career, three teenage driving > children and a project demanding wife doing a home upgrade, I cannot fit my > film based photographic pursuits into my life. Hence I have a bunch of great > equipment hanging around. I cannot run the children and wife off (it is a > love thing) and I cannot afford to have new and old equipment sitting idly > in their cases. I will not list everything here but I will be selling all my > film equipment. I have Nikon F, F2, F2 w/meter, scores of lenses, FM2n with > motor drive, M7, M6, M2, Lenses, SL w/lenses, light meters all going up for > sale here and then on to auction. Hope to buy a high end digital and couple > of lenses with the proceeds. I know I will regret the sale when the children > are gone and the house is finished. I did the same when I got out of college > and sold my last Leica kit, but that is life. I would rather shoot with a > more time friendly system to capture dear memories, than hold on to dear > memories with equipment. Over the years I have learned that the photographs > I have been happiest with, printed, matted and displayed were the product of > feeling and not a product of technique or "system" (even though I was > traditionally trained). Maybe I am just being lazy but I would rather > believe it is just recognizing that there is equipment out there when used > as a tool, with a minimal amount of effort allows me to produce images of > quality and content that makes me happy. In the end isn't this what we are > all doing this for? Except maybe the Professionals, which I gave up > aspirations to achieve in the early 70's when I left Brooks. If anyone would > like to discuss this please contact me privately via e mail at > jrhedger@pdq.net. I hope this is not misconstrued as a true FS as I prefer > to follow forum guidelines. The FS will follow on Friday. > > Best regards, > Jim > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html