Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm packing all of that right now for 3 weeks in Vietnam. I'm more worried about leaving some crucial cable than I am about what clothes I'm packing!! Tina On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Jim Laurel (gmail) <jplaurel at gmail.com>wrote: > The technology chain for digital photography is very fragile, Nathan. If > you've gone to a lot of time and effort to travel someplace, you are > carrying backups of everything. Modern digital cameras are a lot more > fragile than the mechanical M cameras. Your computer (so you know if you've > got a big dust blob on your sensor), drives to back up your computer. And a > tertiary backup because, you know, if data doesn't exist in 3 places, it > doesn't really exist at all. A power supply for your computer and a backup > for that for when it fails. A charger for your camera batteries and a > backup for that. Backup batteries. Your mobile phone. And a charger for > that. A power strip to plug all this into. And all this stuff is incredibly > appealing to would-be thieves, so you're always having to look after it, > locking it up in your room, etc. It's just a lot more stuff to manage. > > I'm a technologist, but I am also concerned about the impact of technology > on society and culture. I walked the Camino de Santiago from St. Jean Pied > de Port to Compostella last Fall - 800 kilometers. So many pilgrims with > their faces buried in their iPhones, frantic to find some WiFi. Sitting > together at tables, but isolated, each one in his/her own little virtual > world. Every night in the Abergues, people would be scrambling for the few > outlets to charge phones, cameras, iPads, etc. I can't help but think that > 30 years ago, they would have been enjoying the moment a bit more. > > --Jim > > On Mar 6, 2014, at 1:21 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > > > Technology moves on. When I was young, when going out, I needed to have > coins in my pocket and find a pay phone if I wanted to call home. For the > past 20 years, I have carried a mobile phone in my pocket as a matter of > course. Initially to talk, now also to browse the web, navigate my way > through foreign cities etc. Why would that be a bad thing? It's wonderful! > > > > Same with cameras. In my film days, I had to carry three bodies: one > loaded with slow slide film, one loaded with slow B&W film and a third > loaded with fast B&W film, in my case ISO 1600, since anything faster was > useless. Now with the Fuji X I have with me where I am right now > (Maastricht), I can shoot at ISO 6400 and get far superior quality to what > I used to get with film at 1600. Again, why would that be a bad thing? It > is not an "obsession", it is merely a way to expand one's photographic > possibilities. > > > > Cheers, > > Nathan > > > > Nathan Wajsman > > (sent from somewhere) > > > > > > Den 06/03/2014 kl. 21.57 skrev "Jim Laurel (gmail)" <jplaurel at > > gmail.com > >: > > > >> I never will understand all this obsession with ultra-high ISO. Along > with bokeh, it has become a fetish in the photographic community. > >> > >> For so many years, we traveled with the Leica M6 and a few fast lenses > and 100 ISO slide film, which we would sometimes push 1 stop. Only rarely > did I feel the need for ISO 1600. The Leica M8 was already better than 35mm > film at comparable ISO sensitivities. The M9 is better still and yet in > today's world it is considered woefully obsolete. I can understand that for > Chris' wedding work, 12,500 allows him to capture images that were just not > possible in the days of film, but few consumers have such a requirement. > >> > >> One thing is for sure. While a few photographers are using the new > capabilities of digital cameras to push creative boundaries, most simply > inundate us with well-exposed and sharply focused images with crazy bokeh > at outrageous ISOs that have little real content. > >> > >> --Jim > >> > >> > >> On Mar 6, 2014, at 11:54 AM, chris williams <zoeica at mac.com> wrote: > >> > >>> No way on the M-AF mount. The M battery is already small, I would not > want another battery drain. > >>> > >>> I just recently shot the M 240 at a wedding. Unless there's a new > version capable of 12,500 iso I don't really see a need for a new camera > announcement.? > >>> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com