Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I can't justify it, but I spent about an hour on the balcony this evening with an M6 on a tripod (gasp), a cable release and a L358 incident meter shooting still life "stuff" through the dwindling twilight - and all my troubles just seemed to melt away with each exposure. I don't get the same mellow high with my D200. Maybe the D200 is like coke and the M6 is like good weed. Dunno :-) Scott Ted Grant wrote: > Gib Robinson said: > >> I've found no downside to shooting with digital. I'm ecstatic about >> photographing in a way I haven't been in years.<<<< > > > Gib absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) > > I've found with digital the same wonderment and excitement I had the > first time I developed the first roll of film after my wife gave me my > birthday gift camera May 27, 1950! :-) > > Along with watching the first print appear in the developer tray!!!! > These are photo memories never to be forgotten as I'm sure I'll > remember my first digital camera in similar fashion many years from now. > > Well OK a few years down the line depending on how the rest of my life > lasts. :-) But they'll be sweet memories no matter how long. > > And like you, I've found I shoot far more than I did with film, > although I find it amazing it's possible considering the documentaries > I've done shooting hundreds of rolls on one assignment. But it's true! > > With digital there's far more .... "Oooohhhh Jeeeeeeesh look at > that!!!" click-click, change angle, click, change again, ... click, > get lower.... click! How does it look from over here... click... click > and so on! Milking the situation for all it's worth far more than > shooting film and trust me I used film like running water! > > Neither do I find any down side, maybe a tad in spending more time at > the computer, but just relate that to time in the darkroom and it's > not really that different. Certainly for me. However, I find I've > become far more in tune with the "Light room" these days. A bonus for > digital. > > I suppose it still comes down to different strokes for different > folks, but without question I'd not switch back to film because I > can't see any reason why I would. > > And after last week with the M8 and it's results I'd find it extremely > difficult to go back to film with an M camera. I mean I've learned the > great values of SLR digital through my Canon 20D with Leica glass and > in that case, there's not really much chance I'd ever return to slide > film again. But who knows! ;-) > > ted > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)