Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/19

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Subject: [Leica] A short walk from my house/Exposures
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:06:43 -0600 (CST)

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011  <tedgrant at shaw.ca>wrote: 

>DIGITAL ERA: Regradless of whomever, we all shoot far more frames with 
>digital than we ever did on film. Does this make us better photographers? 
>NOPE! Just means we shoot more frames and throw more away after looking on 
>screen and asking ourselves the same old question?.... "WHAT THE HELL WERE 
>YOU THINKING?" 
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I find that I shoot about the same number of exposures that I did with film 
(on the job). Then I only rarely used a motor drive (mainly the few soccer 
games I covered) and even now my drive setting is always on "single". In my 
personal photography, I shoot FAR fewer pictures with digital than I did 
before; I always have an empty feeling when I can't record an image on a 
tangible medium.

I got a chuckle this week.  I was at a number of campus events that were 
also covered by a photographer for the student newspaper.  While I would 
observe, decide, and expose a frame at a time, every time she pressed the 
shutter release, I could hear, "click-click-click" or 
"clickclickclickclick".  These were lecture type situations, not sports.  
Maybe I'm just an old fuddy-duddy.  ;~)

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
amr3 at uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/


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