Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Suggesting that people are primarily shooting digital because of the 'herd' mentality, is a bit like suggesting that people gave up glass plates and moved on to film because of the 'herd' mentality. On 1/13/06 10:42 AM, "Luis Miguel Casta?eda" <lmc@interlink.es> wrote: > > On 13/01/2006, at 15:06, Don Dory wrote: > >> Luis, >> No, the herd mentality has set in. [...] >> For the heavy shooter obviously the economics change pretty quickly. > > well, I was joking in part, but your comment pointed some interesting > facts. > > a) People don't want the best thing for them, they just want what > their neighbourg already has. > b) People don't ask caring your advice, they only want to hear what > they are lusting for. > c) If you dont know what to say, say new. > > Recently I was shooting polaroid for fun. It was the spectra film, > well balancend color and quite sharp. Someone came around saying that > polaroids looked fine but they are very expensive. After a bit of > chat I knew that he bought a $300 digicam (his second one), $100 on > gadgets, $200 on a little printer and upgraded his computer ($900) to > have it all working. He spent $1500 before the first shot but he was > pretending that he was shooting for free. I got my last polaroid for > $1 on a eb*y auction plus $8 for shipping, paid about $10 for film, > still $1481 on my pocket left to shot, so I will have nearly 1500 > prints before getting where he was starting and without counting > paper etc for the printer. So we have to define what's expensive. > > Obviously this tale can be reversed easily, and it should be, > depending of needs. I wont shoot nothing else than digital if I was > working for daily media. > > About heavy shooters... the old myth/fact that said that as more you > shoot, you will become a better photog has settled well, but they > forget that when you can preview instantly what you're doing it does > not have sense to soot more. If there is no time to fix and > understand the how and why no matter how many shoots you make, unless > they have fun with it, nothing photographic in it. :) > > > > > Saludos > ----------------------------------------- > http://imaginarymagnitude.net/blog/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information