Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/31

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Use film, or block the panel!
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 14:31:50 -0400

Johnny,

> I had photographed this spot using the 4x5 camera several times, with
> pitifully poor results. One day just after I bought the CP5000 I had it
> in my cycle pannier as I was cycling to work, and as I passed through
> this spot, I thought to myself, damn, that's the picture. I pulled out
> the digi and framed it on the LCD (it was bright so I could hardly see)
> and when I got to work, uploaded it, and there it was. I can't tell you
> how many sheets of 4x5 I wasted trying to do the same thing.

Hum.  I'm not sure what the problem you had with your 4x5...but there is
some irony that you accept a consumer digicam P&S image over a 4x5 as "the
picture".

> What you discover is that sometimes when you loosen your grip on the
> compositional aspects of the photographic game, rather than the
> compositions becoming weaker, they become stronger, more complex, more
> confounding and confrontational, more troubling even.

I hear the same thing can be induced by taking methaqualone... ;-)

Regards,

Austin

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