Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/30

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Breaking the rules.
From: "Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:56:48 -0000

B. D.

I'll swap your Leicas for my box brownie :-)

But of course you right, if you don't have a camera and film, you can't take
a photograph.

Steve

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of B. D. Colen
Sent: 30 December 2001 20:04
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Breaking the rules.


God Bless You Henry!!!

I've started writing, and then deleted, literally three messages today on
this very subject. I can't help wondering how the world of photography
managed to exist prior to the later Leica SMs, and the Ms, and how anyone
now takes a decent photo without using a Leica?...Anyone interested in
seeing if it's possible might take a look at the Newseum's book containing
all the Pulitzer photos, with information about how they were taken. Not
only are there very, very few Leica photos, there are NO 35 mm photos until
the early 60s! Remember that amazing shot of the Japanese legislator being
stabbed to death on stage by a right-wing fanatic with a sword? Shot with a
Speed Graphic, as was virtually everything else - with the exception of
about 2 Rollei shots and one or two Hasselblads - until about 1963. It is
astounding to see what PJs managed to get without that great Leica glass
that can resolve the hair right off the nts of a gnat! And what they managed
to get 4x5 film holders...oh, and then there is the Pulitzer Prize winning
photo taken by a young woman with her box Brownie...no joke. Okay, okay, I
know the "rule" is 'f8 and be there.' But the reality is BE THERE. BE THERE
with film. BE THERE with vision. BE THERE and be OPEN to what's happening
around you. BE THERE with what ever kind of camera and/or lens suits you
best. But BE THERE.

And that rule applies whether you are shooting the bottom of Adlei
Stevenson's shoe, or the jelly on your granddaughter's face - or rocks,
trees and barns.

BE THERE.

B. D.


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Henry Ting
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 2:21 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Breaking the rules.



Let's not get carried away by the Leica M's
capability.
Being able to handhold to take pictures at 1/4 sec is
more of the ability of the photographer than the
camera. Admittedly it does not have a reflex mirror to
induce vibration, but quite frankly mirror flapping is
only detrimental to closeup macro. But then one would
lock the mirror to take such photos.

- --- Simon Stevens <simon@camera-craftsman.com> wrote:
> A nice thing about Leicas is the ability to break
> the rules. Handholding
> at a ridiculous 1/4 of a second is an example of
> this. I figure one stop
> of grace is attributable to the camera being a
> rangefinder, and the
> second is Tom's Softy.
>
> It was just an experiment, but comments welcome
> anyway.
>
> http://www.camera-craftsman.com/lowlight.html
>
> Simon Stevens
>
> P.S. Challenge: Can anyone manage 1/2 a second with
> a handheld, unbraced
> Leica? :-)
>
>
>
>
>
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