Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]==On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:01 PM, B. D. Colen <bd at bdcolenphoto.com> wrote: >Thinking about the MM, I find myself wondering why one would pay a $1000 > >premium for an already extremely expensive digital camera stripped of > >what, for me, is one of the greatest attractions of digital - the ability > >to think black and white, produce wonderful black and white images, but > >always have a color "negative." Shooting with a color sensor allows me to > >go back to my images years later and discover something that I thought > >should be a black and white image is, in fact, extraordinary in color. > >Yes, taking off the bayer filter allows for an otherworldly level of > >sharpness. But photography, for me at least, is not about etching with a > >razor blade, it's about catching moments that show us things about the > >human condition we see every day yet fail to see because they are so much > >a part of our lives. I don't care about being able to count the number of > >fibers in the thread holding a button onto someone's collar, I instead to > >see the joy, or pain, in their eyes. > > +1. --Bob