Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/12

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Subject: [Leica] The Real Cost of Leicas (Uh, uh, uh...)
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:53:49 -0500

This is a dumb as it gets. What an embarrassment!


On 1/12/14 7:22 PM, "Douglas Barry" <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> "Steve Barbour" <steve.barbour at gmail.com> commented on
>> On Jan 11, 2014, at 9:32 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> If one is going to shoot 36 or 72 pictures this week than fine. Film or
>>> digital not much of a difference. But if like many people shooting
>>> digital
>>> opens you up to shooting intensively hundreds of shots per week or more
>>> then
>>> there is a big difference on a number of levels. Cost being one of the
>>> first
>>> ones. And dare I say quality of final final output because that's for
>>> sure
>>> the other one.
>>> And this is where we get the "shooting too many pictures being sloppy
>>> technique" baloney gets put in. and that's pure garbage. There is no such
>>> thing as "over shooting".  In film days I always bought film by the brick
>>> and shot film by the brick.  Assuming I had money. And not everybody's
>>> got
>>> money all the time. We always told ourselves and our clients "film is
>>> cheap"
>>> and that was of course a bit of BS.
>> 
>> shoot more, you are bound to get some better images, of course those who
> pride themselves for shooting "only 6 or 10 pics" , won't know this....
>> s
>> 
> Chimp away, Mark. After all what does planning a picture count for? Sure
> doesn't everybody know that if you give a thousand monkeys paints and
> brushes they'll create a masterpiece. It must be so. Doesn't it say so on
> the internet?
> 
> Pass the plate of bananas when you're going.....
> 
> Douglas 
> 
> 
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Mark William Rabiner
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