Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Its everything about Leica she owns an M9 but her camera bag has Nikon D60, with Nikkor 18-55 mm lens and 8 gb card In it. And a point and shoot. Which she uses on her farm but in her street shots she has them in other galleries on other sites and they are taken with her M9 for sure. Under "ABOUT" It says: In 2011, I got the photo bug again when my husband, O, dropped a Leica M9 in my lap. It was a gift I could not refuse. The camera said, ?Street, shoot the streets!? So in August 2011 I began my odyssey into the world of street photography. It?s a passion that now fills my hard drives with an occasional worthy image to look at. The first picture I clicked in he flicker URL says: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewanglee This photo was taken on March 11, 2012 using a Leica Camera AG M9. That's funny I thought by the micro contrast it was taken with a nikon kit lens. http://500px.com/photo/7820179 On this website her first pic I see says: Leica Camera AG M9 Digital Camera Focal Length 35mm Shutter Speed 1/500 sec Aperture f/16 ISO/Film 400 Category Street Her third website she has listed is http://www.wanderinglulu.com/ This website was made before she launched her main website: http://www.leicaliker.com Perhaps it was made before she got her M9? Regardless I'm going going to claim I can tell from a jpeg a few hundred pix wide that it was done with Leica glass or not. It appears she is implying she's not going to be posting in wandering lulu as of march as she's gone Leica. Here is a picture of her with her Nikon Nikon. http://www.katekirkwood.com/#/about-me Me if I had an M9 in my closet it won't be in my closet. It would never see my closet. It would never even know I had a closet. I'd be out shooting with it every day. Id bring it to the movies I'd bring it to the bathroom. But hope to get as soon as possible the Digital M with no number at the end of it. So Leica Liker does not have her Leica shots in her Leica Liker site. She has them in her flickr and her 500 Px Leica liker photos website. She seems to like Leica as a street town camera not a chicken and cow on the farm camera. She's too relaxed on the farm for the rangefinder. I think her work is brilliant and its not the end of the world she doesn't use the M on her farm. As far as I go she's off the hook. But its a spacey organizing of pix having Nikon Nikon on the Like a Leica site. Mark William Rabiner > From: Jon Streeter <jon.streeter at cox.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 10:13:06 -0800 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Kate Kirkwood and Leica Liker > > I'm with Tina. Ms. Kirkwood's photographs are wonderful, charming, I'm > delighted to have been introduced to her work, and I left her a compliment > on her website to that effect. But it's also true that they were not done > with a Leica. When I viewed them on my phone, I couldn't tell, but when I > opened them on my laptop, I thought they didn't look like Leica images. > Speaking purely from an image-quality standpoint, the images appeared to > have something missing, perhaps the micro contrast or the Leica bokeh, the > same thing I noticed long ago when in all innocence I sold my M3 and bought > a Nikon F and couldn't figure out why the images looked so indistinct and > fuzzy by comparison. > > So? So what if photographs posted on LUG were not made with a Leica? > Well, > I'm here to see what others are doing with the Leica not with Nikons or > Canons or Pentaxes or Olympuses or Sonys or ANYthing other than Leica. > Posting non-Leica photgraphs is akin to hijacking a thread: interesting > twists and turns off the topic might happen, but it's not on the topic. > How many photographs have to be opened and how many captions have to be > checked to see whether the photograph was taken with a Leica? Judging by > the info accompanying the photographs, a variety of cameras have been used > for images posted. Isn't there a users group for those other cameras? > I've > been shooting literally thousands of photographs with my year-or-so-old > Fujifilm X-100. I'm very impressed with this little marvel. And I will > resist the temptation to post them here. > > Have any of you had the experience of shooting with a digital camera, for > whatever reason -- perhaps you shoot weddings, and you've decided that > having a Canon or Nikon DSLR with autoeverything will guarantee that you > are > ready for everything -- and then you return to your Leica film camera and > discover that you prefer the portraits taken with the Leica to those with > all your other cameras? I have had this happen to me, and I think it might > be because I'm capturing the expressions I saw that motivated me to go > "click." I can't be positive because perusing one's own photographs is > hardly a scientific test. Judging the quality of a portrait is subjective; > and since I know that I took it with a Leica, perhaps I'm subconsciously > confirming that all that money spent on Leicas and film was justified > because, by Jove, I was right, such marvelous photographs can be taken ONLY > with a Leica, were it not for my extravagance, not to mention good > judgment, > this marvelous work of art before me would not exist. I'm speaking about > Leica film cameras, by the way, which are justly famous for their almost > nonexistent and most likely insignificant shutter lag. I have no > experience > with Leica digital M cameras, and I'm withholding judgment on them until I > can get the shutter-lag issue settled to my satisfaction. For decades > Leica > spoke in very positive terms about the short delay between pressing the > shutter release and the movement of the shutter. Now that the digital M > cameras have long shutter-lag times even when compared to DSLRs, suddenly > we're hearing that shutter lag doesn't matter, that nobody notices it. > Really? Nobody? For capturing fleeting expressions in a portrait session, > nobody has noticed it? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tina Manley > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 5:12 AM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Kate Kirkwood and Leica Liker > > Not a Leica user: > > *Favorite Street Camera & Lens:* Simply what I have: A Nikon D60 with a > Nikkor 18-55mm lens. > > I didn't think those looked like Leica photos. > Tina > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> > wrote: > >> A friend pointed me to the quirky landscape work of Leica user Kate >> Kirkwood on the web site Leica Liker and I ilked what I saw. Maybe you >> will >> too: >> >> >> http://leicaliker.com/2012/11/02/13-kate-kirkwood-lake-district-united-kingdo >> m-street-photographer/ >> >> Gerry >> >> Gerry Walden >> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or >> +44 (0)797 287 7932 >> www.gwpics.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tina Manley > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 5:12 AM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Kate Kirkwood and Leica Liker > > Not a Leica user: > > *Favorite Street Camera & Lens:* Simply what I have: A Nikon D60 with a > Nikkor 18-55mm lens. > > I didn't think those looked like Leica photos. > Tina > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> > wrote: > >> A friend pointed me to the quirky landscape work of Leica user Kate >> Kirkwood on the web site Leica Liker and I ilked what I saw. Maybe you >> will >> too: >> >> >> http://leicaliker.com/2012/11/02/13-kate-kirkwood-lake-district-united-kingdo >> m-street-photographer/ >> >> Gerry >> >> Gerry Walden >> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or >> +44 (0)797 287 7932 >> www.gwpics.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information