Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/05

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Subject: [Leica] Another M9 question
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:57:25 -0700
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How about "offering of opinions" instead of debate? :-)

(Don't look at me, I don't use flash)

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:12 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

>
> No No No there is no debate worth having! PERIOD AN ABSOLUTE WASTE OF TIME!
> Because using a flash with any M camera is an absolute waste of beautiful
> natural light motivating you in the first place to take a picture! It isn't
> the flash going poof destroying what you are seeing ... the for real light
> on the subject!
>
> For heaven sakes its' the light you see on your subject screaming at you to
> take the picture in the first place! Not the flash!
>
> DEBATE?  Ridiculous to even consider it in the first place.
>
> Hell one is either a photographer with the ability to see beautiful light
> and subjects working together and making an exposure to capture exactly
> what's making your belly squiggle with excitment at the scene before you to
> shoot! And once again, not the damn flash destroying what you are looking
> at!
>
> Dr. ted :-)
>
> Am I beginning to sound like an anti-flash person? ;-)
>
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