Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Johny D wrote: > ... W Eggleston at some point gave up looking through the viewfinder > and called the resulting photographs 'shotgun photos' -- in that > they were aimed by instinct like a shotgun rather than by eye like > a rifle and scope. I didn't know of Eggleston's view on the subject, but have always likened Leica M to shotguns, SLR/LF/Hasselblad as rifles, and modern/professional SLRs with their 10 frames/sec power drives as machine guns :-) - - Phong - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html