Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 13, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > > On Jan 13, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Ted wrote: > >> Quite frankly I've always bought Leica range finder cameras for such a >> simple reason ..... "THEY ARE THE BEST TOOLS IN MY HANDS FOR THE KIND >> OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY I'VE ALWAYS DONE!" Approximately 50 years >> plus, PERIOD! No other reason! Baubles be damned! >> >> Have they made a difference in the quality of my photography? You bet >> yer sweet ass it has, just look through the books I've done (8)! Or >> certainly the last 3 medical books, one a large coffee table issue. > > > You mean to tell me that it is the camera that makes the photograph, > not the photographer. That any boob with a Leica, even me, can produce > prize winning works. IMHO it's not the just the camera and it's not just the photographer. It's how the two interact with the light and subject and the time/space continuum. In my case a viewfinder that isn't the equal of the SL's viewfinder is a struggle to use, even the second-best viewfinder in the R8. There are pictures I get with the SL that I miss with the R4 or R8 or any of my Nikon cameras. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com