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 p.19 #8 · M8/Leica People I'm Thinking About Switching | |
ovredal73 wrote:
I was flipping through this thread just now and of course I see the issues with this camera and rangefinders in general, but to me it´s a tool to reinvigorate my way of working and instill me with a bigger confidence as a photographer, simply by using "the same" tool that great photographers in my field of interest have used. I think it is purely psyhological, not an interest in the technical side of it. I haven´t looked at a single test image from it, only casual, random shots posted here and there.
Well the photographers that made Leica famous, were (are) shooting with a specific style which is a little irrelevant to what is being discussed here: Bresson, Winogrand, Gilden, Trent Park, Abbas, Constantine Manos, Nikos Economopoulos, Mark Cohen, I could go on forever... I've read countless bios/interviews/books and these guys never even mention their camera, maybe just pracical things, like how durable or reliable it's been. You will notice that 90% of their photos are in good light or with flash, wide & slow lens (bar HCB and his beloved 50mm), zone/hyperfocal focusing, quick intuitive framing with an emphasis on subject and composition. P/J-street type shooting, not sure how popular this stuff is at FM. If thats how you shoot, then yeah, you'll probably feel like Winogrand 
But low-light/shallow d.o.f./tripod work/macro/commercial etc, I'm sure this camera can do just fine, but it sure is not what made it famous.
The link posted above with the B&W set from Honduras etc, what makes these photos so nice to look at is that the photographer has kept a consistent style in pp and has managed to create a coherent & cohesive set of images around a specific theme. Nice light, nice subject, nice composition, right time to press the shutter button. She could've used her son's p&s, I would still like her set for these reasons. The way I see it, no matter how much we pay, every camera is but a combination of comprimises, just gotta pick the combination that interferes the least with one's shooting. If this is a Leica then Leica it is, but I reckon its different for everybody. I dont believe in silver bullets
Edit: spelling
Edited on Jun 29, 2009 at 10:33 PM · View previous versions
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