Hi, > Shooting a lot of film doesn't make your pictures any better.
Have to disagree with you there, Shel. :o) Personally speaking, the more film I shoot, the better I get. Never heard of a world-class athlete who didn't run a lot of miles (apart from darts players, of course). Never heard of a world-class photographer who didn't shoot a lot of film. --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunday, October 21, 2001, 2:58:32 PM, you wrote: > Shooting a lot of film doesn't make your pictures any better. I'd have > to agree pretty much with Bob Walkden's comments wrt shooting with the > Leica. > It took me a while to get used to the camera - I even used it for a > while and became so disgusted with it that I stuck it in the cabinet for > almost six months. Now, like Bob, I use it almost every day and find > that for street shooting and people pictures it offers a much better > view than an SLR. I do seem to have one advantage, and that's that I'm > somewhat able to pre-visualize DOF, although I really don't worry or > think about it too much. > "Juan J. Buhler" wrote: >> >> On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, J. C. O'Connell wrote: >> >> > Any of you all use equipment other than >> > Pentax at times? >> >> Leica M6, with 50 Summicron and Russian 35 and 85 lenses. >> >> I cannot seem to get used to the M6. I'm too slow to focus the >> rangefinder, and sometimes I just forget it's not the MX and think >> that if what I see is in focus the picture will also be. The other day >> I spent about one hour taking the last 20 shots of a roll, walking >> around chinatown in San Francisco. When I finished, I pulled out the >> MX with K30/2.8 and then K85/1.8 and shot a roll and a half in 30 >> minutes, in the same two or three blocks I had been walking around >> with the M6. I guess I have to keep practicing with the Leica, but >> don't want to give up the MX. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
