Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote: Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica superiority or not. >What is more important - the technical quality of a photograph or the >artistic merits? Most of this obsessing about lenses, sensor types, camera >bodies, etc are all about the former, because you can measure it. The >latter, though far more important, cannot be measured at all, so is >ignored!!! >In no other art form that I am aware of are the tools discussed ad nauseum, >and nobody discusses, or cares about, the end product at all. Even in >music, where tools are important, they are relegated to a distant second >place with respect to the actual performance/recording. >Cheers >Jayanand ============================================================================================================================================ Hear, hear! I'm with you, Jayanand. Succinctly put. When I first started out getting paid for taking pictures, I had the feeling I was looked at with amusement because I used Pentaxes, and not Nikons. I eventually wanted to get into Leica not for the brand itself, but because I wanted to use a rangefinder camera for its smaller size and quietness. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA POY 1978 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt