Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sorry to come in somewhat late on this, but I have been away. I myself prefer to avoid using a tripod, almost at all costs, with my M6. I believe that the genius of the Leica rangefinder is its ability to capture reality as it is, without intruding upon or changing it. To put up a tripod is often to change and interrupt a scene; even where people are not present, the perfect grainlessless, clarity and full depth-of-field of a low-light tripod shot is out of keeping with how the human eye sees it. A few years back I went through a monochrome, medium format phase (Mamiya C330F, Tech Pan). In those days, I used a tripod *all* the time. My favourite was the Benbo Mk1.