Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Joe Stephenson wrote: <<<<The "Courtesy and respect" that you find (accurately in my experience) lacking in reportage is the reason that many people have lost patience with the press and its sometimes pushy, indifferent manner.>>>>> Joe, If there is anyone who has lost patience with the media it is anyone who has watched them do their thing of the past 30 years! Degrading dramatically in the past 20! To an abominable manner in the past 10 years! If we who have been and are now on occaision involved in the media circus of to-day, Leica or otherwise carriers, look at ourselves in a sense of reality of doing onto others as I'd like them to do to me...........the media are a bunch of bastards!!!!!!! I apologize for my language use, unfortunately having been a news photographer when it was an hounarable profession and watching it develop into the animal packs we see today, NOT ALL OF THEM! But an awful great number of them. Who would give any of them respect? They dress like animals, act worse than animals and command absolutely no respect whatsoever! And I'm not even talking about Leica card and camera carrying news photographers! Not many of them in any event! Mostly over the hill guys who know better and act as gentlemen and still come out with the best picture! Well OK sometimes!! :) To get this back on the topic of Leica and jazz group available horrendous light scenes. Shot some a few years ago, B&W and at the insistance of an "amateur" who had been shooting stuff of his brothers group, I took his advice and as wierd as it seemed, it worked. He used Kodak 3200 at that speed and sometimes 6400. Developed the film himself and then took it and had 4X6 B&W prints made at his local 1 hour shop! I know it sounds crazy already, but hear it out! It gets wilder! :) When the prints are made 4X6 they don't show any grain! Now you edit and take the very best and copy them onto Tmax 100 film fine grain stuff. And make your almost grainless 8X10's from the copies! Now I know you are going to be shaking your heads and brains to pulp. But I saw prints he made and there wasn't any idea that they came through such a process and the band photos were incredible. Mine, well we wont get into that! :) But it worked and does work, if you want to go to all the trouble! ted