Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Nov 15, 2007, at 1:20 AM, G Hopkinson wrote: > No Ted, you are right. Content is the reason to take the photograph. > Technical discussions are still interesting for some. Quality > still matters of course, or we would all have 2MP camera phones. > That phone picture might please grandma but it won't satisfy the > photographer nor sell too many prints or books! I was trying to > stimulate a discussion that involved people saying what qualities > appeal to them and sharing pictures to show those qualities. Big > emphasis on the sharing pictures part ;-) Anyhoo I don't think I > have generated too much interest there so far! Back to scanning and > sharing from about 500 pics left from my visit to the EuroLUG > folk. > Cheers > Hoppy > > -----Original Message----- > Subject: RE: [Leica] IMG Iona and grandpa Fitzgerald work... > > Guys and gal. :-) > > > > About lenses and which did, does whatever, means diddly squat if you > have no > idea what the hell the light and moment of content is all about in > the first > place. > > > > Oh you get some kind of Leica 50 mystique one over the other 50 or > otherwise. But in the great realities of life they mean el zero when > it > comes down to the content and light! And or "is it a nice picture > with a > 50mm lens?" Or any other lens! > > > > All that really matters regardless of the good intentions of the > 50mm folks, > is what matters to the following... "The ordinary grand father, G-ma > or > father-mother! Will they love the picture?" > > > > And if you shot it with a $10,000 dollar whatever lens it wont > matter if > it's a Leica 50, a Panasonic whatever or Nikon coke bottle! Or any > other > derivate of the focal length! Basics count! > > > > The basic facts of life are.. "Does the family love it?" :-) If they > do you > have a winner of a picture!:-) > > > > Need I say more about a successful moment? :-) > > > > ted > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information