Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Making money, real money, off stock or really anything photography is rare. Tina is one of the rare ones. I am guessing that less than 5% of the M9 owners make back the cost ever. But like Tina, my cars are ancient, my wines are inexpensive, I wear T-shirts and jean, eat cheap noodles. Most of the money I spend on myself are cameras, books and calligraphy stuff. They are the ones that give me joy. In 2 years, when the M10 comes out with 24MP, quieter rewind, faster CPU, and a high resolution scratch proof LCD, you will be assured that you had saved yourself $7000 by waiting :-) On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > Leaving arguments about "crop circles," UFOs and alien abductions aside, > it's a stunning, fine, fine photo. Congrats, Mark. > > And you M9 owners, stop giving me sensor area envy! :-) I nearly went > into hock to buy the M8. Which was supposed to be the ultimate, > perpetually > upgradable digtal M, until it became an orphaned laughingstock two years > after release. Can't afford the M9 without selling several lenses and a > car, > all of which I'd like to keep. I think the stock agencies are in cahoots > with the camera industry, requiring ever more expensive cameras just to get > in the game, even though the results at normal publication sizes would > barely show the differences. > > Some of the arguments about M8 vs. M9 vs. full-frame Nik/Can remind of the > arguments about Speed Graphics vs. 35mm in the 1940s and 50s. "They" said > you couldn't take a decent picture with a tiny Leica. You needed a Speed > Graphic. Editors enforced this, unless you fooled them by not showing them > the negatives. These days the editors have EXIF data, so fooling them is > harder. > > Ah well. When the M10 comes out and the M9 becomes an object of scorn and > derision, then I'll dumpster-dive for an M9. And take fantastic pictures > that would have been the toast of the town last year. > > It's enough to make a guy want to go back to film. Or buy a used D700. Or > better yet, not buy into the digital sucker's game that makes only the very > latest, most expensive "new thing" the only acceptable instrument for > barely > adequate photography. > > --Peter > > > Effective and off the "beaten track" More often we see silhouettes >> used for intimacy, this has activity with their ghosts dancing >> in the background! >> However, mentioning that the photo has purple haze, a violet hue, >> would have been nice. My pupils are ultra-sensitive to purple, for >> which I must take medication...I would have skipped it. :) >> >> Montie >> >> >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/100704_225458.jpg.html >> >> >> I don't know how I got such tack sharp results shooting at 100th of a >> second >> with a 200mm focal length with a 1.5 crop circle factor camera at night. >> But its the ultra compact 55-200 again. And so an effective at full frame >> format 300mm @ 100th of a second! >> To me the dioramas presented by people in this At Josie Robertson Plaza >> Fountain; called The Revson Fountain every night are amazing. But I >> usually >> have a wide on my camera. And luckily this night a week or two ago I had a >> long lens on. >> >> The people in the shot when they see me taking pictures of them off off to >> the side assume I'm getting their faces. They don't know I'm just getting >> their outlines. So its an unusual deal. I feel real brave because I don't >> feel like I'm invading anyone's privacy. But THEY don't know that. Much of >> what goes on at the fountain is people taking pictures of each other. But >> with flash usually. Not at this moment though. >> And here I am standing off with a long zoom speaking with a student with a >> camera bag who had the same exact lens on her camera. Both the non VR >> version...who needs virtual reality when we have the real thing? >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.wordpress.com> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]