[Leica] More from the glorious days in Barcelona

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Hi Jeffery,
Lluis is as a butterfly floating quietly and unobtrusive as a breeze walking 
along the street making himself almost invisible as he clicks away. It's a 
talent few have to work so unobtrusively as he has! :-)

Well anyone walking about carrying some great big zoom lens is going to be 
as invisible as a Mack Truck crashing along! Absolutely ridiculous as a 
quiet invisible photographer! And I don't care who it is!

With an M type camera rarely does anyone take you seriously as it looks like 
an old time amateur camera! I have had people say to me even with a brand 
new M7... "Oh that looks like an old time camera, does it still work OK?"

"Yes m'am very well, it was my grand fathers!" ;-) And move on. :-)

cheers,
ted


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342 at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] More from the glorious days in Barcelona


> The documentary I saw on James Nachtwey made me think that he was about as 
> subtle as a photographer could be with a huge dSLR and gunfire all around 
> him. His "dress code" is pretty subtle.
>
> We had a somewhat contentious thread a few years ago after a photographer 
> was told to stop photographing people on his lunch hour using a big dSLR 
> and big zoom lens. My recollection was that he really conducted himself in 
> an "in your face" fashion that made his subjects angry. I sort of agreed 
> that a street photographer should not be "disturbing the peace", but 
> others were not in agreement with me.
>
> If someone can disturb the peace with a Leica RF, or a Fuji X100, then 
> he/she's way too obnoxious to be a street photographer. Luis looks and 
> behaves like a gentilhombre, and that surely helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeffery
> _________________
> Jeffery Smith
> Irish Channel, New Orleans, LA
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