[Leica] in which kyle tries to take a photograph with a leica....

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Auto focus and auto exposure will do that to you every time.  Rots the brain
cells, stops the hand, eye, brain thing.  Still, a fun picture and a pretty
girl obviously enjoying herself.  So, in addition to your ten rules of LUG
photography you might add another: Shoot a roll of film a year in your
actual Leica M6 just to retain another form of seeing, perhaps three images
a month.  Hmm, might be interesting at the end of the year to see what was
catching.

On 4/9/07, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> so last week i went out with some friends and didn't feel like carrying a
> big heavy camera ... "hey!" i thought, "I'll bring the Leica!"
>
> My M6 has had the same roll of film in it since 2002 so finishing it off
> sounded like a good idea.
>
> The first three photos I took I realized later I had the aperture set to
> f22, despite it being dark out rapidly everyone got very tired of me
> shouting "wait! wait! I need to focus this!" no matter which way I turned
> the focusing ring, the rangefinder seemed to go the opposite direction for
> what I needed.
>
> The most embarrassing part though was that when the roll had ended -- I
> couldn't remember how to get the film out. For several minutes it escaped 
> me
> that one needed to flip a lever to enable the rewind knob to spin backwards
> and then for some reason, I had it in my head that pulling up on the rewind
> knob would pop the back out.
>
> The real kicker?
>
> My photos were awful. This is the best of the lot:
>
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/lj/2007/mimi.jpg
>
> Whatever part of my brain was being used in the past to properly operate a
> Leica is now filled with baseball statistics and lists of people who have
> won on Survivor.
>
> kc
>
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