Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Howdy Mike. Nice to see you spending a moment with us. How's the new job going? Have a Leica run over by a train yet? ;-) Mike Johnston wrote: >>>>>>Speaking of dead--if hand holding is for dead photographers, tripods are to ensure you get dead pictures. I can't think of any better way to "capture" the indecisive moment.<<<<<<<<<<< Well you know that's absolutely right and I understand that on the use of tripods, breathing etc. But what really pisses me off with some of these esoteric theorists is, that when they lay down their mantra that it's the only way to achieve photographic perfection. I mean, that without question is bull shit, when it comes to real picture taking! Unless the only thing you shoot is rocks, ferns and non breathing things off a tripod. Hell, that even excludes grass blades waving in a breeze! >>>>P.S. John Williams is for real. Nice guy, good book. But his premise is strictly to absolutely maximize photographic resolution--a very esoteric pursuit.<<<<<<< Well that's very admirable, nice guy or not. His theory means diddly for nearly every real time shooting photographer in the world. Fine, if this guys goal is to do nothing more than record how many squigglies per mm the glass cuts on a piece of film that's all well and good. However, Real Photographers don't need any more screw ball heart beat diddly theories causing mental distraction in capturing " their decisive moments!" Maybe it's just me getting crotchety in my old age, but long before these glass theory and heart beat guys came along with their "only best way" to shoot pictures, one hell of a bunch of very fine photographers passed this way and did extremely fine sharp ass photography. And I'd bet the majority didn't know a heart beat pause from a Summilux or widget! ted