Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]AMEN! Lluis El 05/01/2015, a las 05:28, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> escribi?: > My last words on this. :-) TRUE! :-) > No matter how much I read the messages? All that happened was I became more > stupid than I was before I started! But that's quite simple for a > non-techie > type like me.. > > See once I learned how to put film in a camera or change a lens I never > bothered with anything else. Oh yeah and what ASA meant and how to set a > hand meter eventually moving along to some of the built in cameras. > > Oh I had to learn how to use a 4X5 Speed Graphic, load film holders and > magazines. Oh yeah and soup the film in little 4'X4' film souping rooms! > Here's how? :-) > > Boss man says: "OK Ted never mind that tiddly little plaything camera, > here's a man's camera! Pay attention as I'm going to only show you once > how > it works in the next few minutes before you go out on your first > assignment." > > And he did! :-( Like in about 15 minutes was the "HOW TO LESSON!" Just one > show and tell all the details followed with>>>>>>>> "OK ? DON'T WORRY, JUST > REMEMBER TO PULL THE SLIDE AND REPLACE IT BEFORE CHANGING MAGS! AND YOU > ONLY > HAVE 12 SHEETS." > > "OH YEAH, YOU HAVE TO COCK THE SHUTTER BEFORE EACH SHOT! DON'T WASTE FILM > AS > YOU CAN GET GREAT PHOTOS WITH TWO SHOTS!" And I did my 3 assignments that > evening and didn't screw-up anything! :-) > > Then 65 plus years later you guys come along with all this digi- crop (I > nearly put CRAP?") ;-) So frustrated, I called my LUG friend Henning Wulff > and asked him to please explain what are they talking about? > > He did very simple and eloquently! Thank you Henning very much. And yes he > explained it very gently so that as we spoke I understood exactly what all > these major concern's were all about. We said "Good bye" and I forgot most > of what he said as we hung-up! Oh well !!!:-( YOU DIDN'T REALLY THINK I'D > REMEMBER DID YOU?" > > MY RESPONSE? It's completely meaningless unless you happen to be a "Major > Techno Freak !" More concerned about digital tiddily thingies of crop and > image size of all those little things that make a print on a page! The > "REALITY?" In 99.99% of the time? It doesn't matter! Unless? > > Once again "ONE IS A TECHNO FREAK!" OR unless you have a magnifying glass > to search the image to see the difference. None of all this "crop stuff" > isn't going to make your photography any better? > > What I'm constantly telling you!!!!!!!! "IT'S THE CONTENT THAT COUNTS!" > Sure > we want beautiful prints anytime! That's a given! But what you guys see and > what I see must be astronomical differences? I've spent several months > printing Number 1 Son's Iphone photos! I tried 13X19 size and scrubbed it > immediately! Looked something like B&W film at ASA 6400 for grain or > whatever those little digi things are called? Drop the print size to 11.7 X > 16.5 and they're smashing great prints of smashing great content! Colour & > B&W! > > OK my relationship with so much of the constant meaningless diatribe that > comes up for weeks on end! I'd bet a $100.oo that the ratio of CREW who > understand what you're talking about, compared to those who don't have a > clue what it's all about is ONE in 500! > > It's something like the "viewfinder on the M8!" Has some kind of thing > about > it the techie folks don't like? > > ME? Hell I didn't know there was as I pop lenses on mine.................. > 15mm, look through camera view finder all looks cool? Square the center > point. CLICK! I look at the screen? OOPS! I make an adjustment returning to > the M8 view-finder.... CLICK! And the image looks cool! > > Pop on my Noctilux ?? "CLICK!" What you see is what you get! A COOL > NOCTI-PHOTO.:- Oh what was that "problem with the view finder???????? > > There you go CREW the old guy needs a nap. > > See Ya... have fun with the cropping whatever that means? :-) :-) > > cheers, > The "mean-ass Dr. ted!" :-) (( Or whatever description you wish to hang on > him? )) ;-) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information