Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Personally, I honestly think I would have to know perfectly well what kind of photographer I am (not want to be) before considering investing so much money in a camera and lenses. :-) Enjoy your new M9 Cheers Douglas Mark Rabiner wrote: >> I bought an M9 recently and a few lenses, revived my dormant >> photography habit and started posting to the LUG again. In that short >> time I think my photography has improved and its all down to people >> being honest with me. >> >> The most important thing I've learned since getting the M9 is what >> kind of photographer I want to be. I don't do beautiful landscapes >> because I haven't got the patience or inclination to get up at 4 in >> the morning for the right light or spend hours in photoshop honing a >> print and I also know that I'd still be pretty bad at it because >> frankly I find most landscape photography boring. I'd rather just go >> there on my bike and look at the scenery. I'll never be a >> photojournalist because I think to do it justice you need to immerse >> yourself in your subject and make sure that your pictures tell the >> whole story you wanted to tell. >> > > Its just that your camera, an M9 cost SEVEN thousand dollars. > And one of your lenes, the Noctilux .95 cost TEN thousand dollars. > And you're on the Leica users list. > So when you're on a short walk having not woken up too early in the morning > and later not in the mood to spend too much time tweaking the shot your > doing it with a seventeen thousand dollar kit in your hand. Camera with > lens. > Most people with $17,000 dollars in their hand filled with camera are not > worried about what kind of commitment they have to photography. > Its a given they have some. > Nobody can force somebody with a fortune worth of camera gear in their hand > to take less than the most causal approach to photography. Its a free > world. > > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >