[Leica] OT: Another maybe not so stupid GH1 question

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> I too, as a young lad with few bits of gear and lots of curiosity,
> hung an M2 with Visoflex on the back of a 4x5 camera (as well as,
> later, a Nikon F). I also built a zoom (two boxes which slid together
> on black velvet) 4x5 polaroid pinhole camera; and many other
> fascinating still image recording devices.
> 
> I really believe that those sorts of excursions into making cameras
> out of odd bits and pieces gives us a useful, deeper feel for how it
> all works in these little auto everything, digital, computer imaging
> devises. Those entering the field with these new devices and dozens
> of menus may actually miss the obvious: aperture, shutter, focus,
> light sensitive plane, click - is all there really is under all the
> buttons and screens.
> 
> More recently I still hang my M8/Viso, R8/DMR and 5D on my 4x5 Ultima
> to achieve shifts, swings and tilts.
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser


A  PhotoFrame friend of mine whose dad was a photographer always shot with a
Hasselblad mounted to the back of a view camera.


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Mark William Rabiner