Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/17

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Minority?
From: "robmueller" <robmueller@home.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 17:08:58 -0500

you've been talkin' to John Sexton, me boy'o, havn't yee?

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Codispoti
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Minority?




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I recall attending a photo workshop where the instructor said: "I use
strictly available light" and, as he placed a big honkin flash with power
pack onto the table, he added: "And in most cases this is what's available".

I do not believe that flash is preferable to available light nor do I
believe that there is something preferable and glamorous about not using
flash at all. However, I have seen many instances where diehard
existing-light photographers have taken photos in bad light thus producing
bad photographs. I have seen also photographs that said FLASH all over .

Whether with a Leica at f:1.0 or a Takashukashi at f:8.0 some scenes demand
the use of flash - be it fill or full - while others do not require anything
more than existing light.

A photographer who refuses to use flash is not necessarily better the one
who avails himself of whatever tools are necessary to produce the best photo
possible.

Joseph Codispoti