Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/13

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Subject: [Leica] The Real Cost of Leicas
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:31:26 -0500

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.
>> 
> 
> 
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Mark William Rabiner
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