Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good post Eric. Right on! Jim At 07:06 PM 10/12/98 -0500, you wrote: > >>the value of manual cameras. IMHO it's the beginners, the rich amateurs and >>the hack pros who are so entranced with technology-in other words, the ones >>with the least vision and the sloppiest technique. They want the camera to >>compensate for their own inadequacies. They look for the camera with the >>most metering modes, with the best autofocus, the fastest motor drive. They >>search through chemical catalogs and photo recipe books for esoteric >>developers and toners. They compare resolution test charts (and prices) to >>find which is the "best" lens. They study the Zone System before they learn >> >>Peter Hughes > >Though much of this is true, it seems to me a straw man. Why? Because it >makes the assumption that old cameras with no meters are more "pure" than >any other camera on the planet. It is just as wrong to believe one as the >other. No person can say for any other person what is best for them. And to >complain because someone wants something different than another is just as >guilty as the anal retentive types who are constantly on the search for >something "greener on the other side." > >Technology has its place, and is no more or less "pure" than any other. >Sports photographers would be fools to use Leica M cameras as their main >tools. Just as much as a street shooter would be crazy to use a 4x5 camera >for low-light candid pictures. The tool for the job. M2, M7, R8, F5, EOS 3, >Sinar or Minilux. Whatever works. > >To call pros "hacks" because they use a lot of tools is ignorance of the >requirements of the challenges they have to meet. Technology is a tool, not >the devil in disguise. >-- > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > >I love cats...they taste just like chicken. >