[Leica] Re: i think it works for leica as well!

[Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>]

At 12:44 AM 6/12/00 +0800, Tofu wrote:
>from; http://www.toycamera.com/index.html
>Toy Camera Credo:
>To illuminate and rejuvenate, to inspire great visions of truth and reveal
>injustices, to boldly go where no other photographers have gone before, to
>stand your ground even when mad dogs are biting at your feet, to find open
>roads to drive down to think of new and important projects, to always shoot
>from your heart and not your pocketbook, to shoot with reckless abandon
>wherever the need arises, to say nice things to small and old peoples, to
>wash the dishes at least once a week, to continue to photograph through the
>storms and indignation and arrive at a cafe that serves hot bagels, to daily
>forge ahead with camera in hand with a new vitality and inner strength, to
>sometimes be able to throw guilt to the winds and leave your family for a
>day of photographing, to have a positive outlook on your road of life and
>listen to music that inspires, preferably via a portable cassette player
>while making pictures of the ones you love in the cool twilight.
>
>Dan Price (the shotsman) via Jonathon Winter's Plastic Camera site.
>

Aaaahh, the dream of it all. Then reality sets in...

My credo is:

"Real photographers with real cameras take real photographs.

Artsy fartsy photographers with toy cameras take artsy fartsy toy pictures.

Pinhole photographers with pinhole cameras take pictures that look like
pinhole pictures."

This is not a judgement, simply a visual classification.

Take an M camera with a 35/1.4 ASPH and a 75/1.4 and give them to a real
photographer (Ted, Tina, and many others on this list) and you will get
stunning photographs. Photographs that no toy camera in the world, in the
hands of the worlds greatest photographer, can remotely approach. Period!

You can turn the 75/1.4 and the 35/1.4 ASPH into a toy lens by spraying a
light mist of 3M spray mount adhesive on a UV filter then putting the
filter on the lens. Now you have the best of both worlds. Filter off, real
photographs. Filter on, toy photographs. Sometime you don't even need to
spray the UV filter... ;-)

Now back to the "toy camera credo." Remove the title (toy camera credo) and
replace it with "Photographers Credo" and it is certainly a worthy piece of
prose.

Very nice.

Everyone should read it daily. Kudo's to whomever wrote it.

Tofu? Great stuff. I eat it daily.

Perhaps it was Dan Price. :-) Thanks Dan.

Jim

NO FILTER