Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Its good too shoot with a Rolleiflex sometimes. 12 on a roll. Makes you more carful. HCB before he became HCB went around Paris with a camera just like Atget had made of the exact same wood. He refined his vision with sheet film before he started cranking out roll after roll with lightning speed; afterwards finding the decisive moment in his stacks of contacts. On 1/13/14 2:11 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > When I started photography I could afford 1 36 exposure film per month. > I thought a lot about what I wanted before I shot. I probably missed loads > of > shots which might have been better. > The comment which some people throw about "film is cheap" has always made > my > blood boil since it had been, for me, so patently untrue, and is a load of > rubbish. > > Now I have fewer financial constraints and digital I do shoot more, but > those > years of being economical have left their mark. > Frank D. > > > On 13 Jan, 2014, at 04:52, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > >> I've never met nor heard of a photographer who shoots "only 6 or 10 Pics" >> of anything. Every photographer I've ever met or heard of wished they'd >> shot >> more when they got back and sifted thought their shoot and could just kick >> themselves for not doing so. To have spent a bit more time with it would >> have been good. >> This is basic. And I've never heard of any controversy involved in it till >> the last very few years on the internet only. >> Shooting very few pix of something and bragging about it as if its some >> kind >> of plus or advantage is all loose loose. There just is not plus side to >> it. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/