Re: Mr. Puts' Thoughts

[Soon Wai Hoe <adisoon@pl.jaring.my>]

Your words made so much sense Robert!!

- -Adi>photography.  The camera has been around too long to be able to lump it
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>I must agree that the Leica is not a restrictive camera, in the sense that
>it should be used for a single type of photographic work. For several years
>now I have been working on a series of pictures of a particular region in
>Europe. I work with a 4x5 view camera and various 35mm instruments as well.
>A very high proportion of my keepers are done with my M4 (most often with a
>35/2 Summicron). Sometimes I can even do a whole session with the 4x5,
>grabbing a few frames with the Leica along the way, only to discover later
>that the Leica frames are the ones to print. Part of the reason for this is
>that the M4 is always with me, ready to quietly and unobtrusively take
>advantage of a pause in conversation, the light through a kitchen window,
>the sudden appearance of a dog or chicken in a doorway. Also, I often use
>it like a visual notebook: making pictures whose only excuse to exist is as
>a shot-of-record or a documentation of something less artistic and emotive
>than merely factual. In any situation, the M4 is likely to be the camera
>nearest at hand, hanging on my left shoulder on a short strap and tucked
>protectively up under my left arm. I suppose that somewhere there might be
>a camera better suited to this sort of life-work, but I don't intend to
>waste any time looking for it. My M4 and I seem to suit each other, and it
>never complains even when I try a landscape with it rather than unpack the
>4x5. It's not just a "professional camera" to me, it's a professional in
>its own right.
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>-Robert
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