[Leica] Question about M8 exposure

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Now you see what all you folks who understand all this digital technical
stuff have done?

 

Here I am this past few years just having a great time digital snapping away
shooting what I thought were pretty dang good photos without a thought other
than point camera at what looked cool and "CLICK!" 

Really enjoying photo life without a thought because of it's beautiful
simplicity. And all of a sudden, Holy Cow maybe I haven't been doing it
right, well OK maybe the camera hasn't been doing it right? 

Now I've got to find out what all this "clipping and keeping to the right
stuff" is? 

Once in awhile I've seen this image on the screen that looks like a seismic
disaster of pointy looking mountains, but I never knew it was something to
do with the picture because the picture 99.9% of the time on the camera
screen looked pretty cool. Terrific on computer screen."What me worry?" 

 

Now it took several years for Tina and a few others to get me to shoot RAW
mode. Once I did, it seemed cool as I finally got it through my numb skull
it's a kind of original image. OK by me.

 

But the thought of having to fiddle something else on the camera screen each
time I shoot a frame that takes my attention away from the action of the
moment really isn't what my photography is all about.

You can't be serious that each time you shoot, you turn on the mountain
screen, twiddle something to supposedly make image better, turn off screen
and return to shoot? My goodness how many incredible photo moments are lost
doing this twiddling and does it really really make such a huge difference
to the naked eye? If not, and a non-techie type like me would only become
frustrated twiddling things when I'd rather be snapping away capturing
moments. Is it truly an absolute necessity?

 

Over!

 

ted