Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 3/26/06 4:45 PM, Rose Scollard at editor@frontenachouse.com wrote: > As always, most impressive. Question: for the white winged dove you used a > Leicaflex SL2 with a 560, for the western bluebird, you used an R8 with the > same lens; do you have a particular strategy for using one camera for one > type of shot, the other camera for a different one? David Scollard In these particular cases the choice was easy: the White-winged Dove was pre-DMR, the Western Bluebird was 'playing with new toy'. I'm still developing my strategy but I think it will go something like this: For a given subject, use the DMR first to get a basic photo of the species. This is because the DMR can be cropped with much better quality than Provia 400F, so I can at least have a 'good' picture of the bird. The playback feature and zero variable cost of digital will be handy here. Once the species is 'in the bag' with the DMR, switch to a Leicaflex with film, particularly if I can get closer. I want to use pretty much 100% of the film area and a given lens will have a wider field of view so if I can't get substantially closer the film camera won't do me much good. The Leicaflex is for the great pictures, because of its viewfinder, and I'll use whatever film I need to for the light conditions. Of course if the great picture happens to be on the DMR I won't mind at all :-) Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com