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Subject: Re: Manual vs. motor
On 22 Oct 2001, at 13:24, Mike Johnston wrote:
We all have our preferences, and for some they are strong preferences
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Subject: Re: Manual vs. motor
Mike Johnston writes:
We all have our preferences, and for some they are strong preferences (which
is perfectly legitimate) but any photographer should be able to adapt to
either manual film advance or motorized film advance. It just takes a while
to get used
Funny you should mention it. I was just reading an interview with Annie
Leibovitz (http://fototapeta.art.pl/fti-ale.html) in which she mentions a
bonus of motor drives that had never occured to me. If your left eyed; like
I am, you dont have to move your face away from the camera to advance the
Evan Hanson wrote:
Funny you should mention it. I was just reading an interview
with Annie Leibovitz (http://fototapeta.art.pl/fti-ale.html)
in which she mentions a bonus of motor drives that had never
occured to me. If your left eyed; like I am, you dont have
to move your face away
We all have our preferences, and for some they are strong preferences
(which
is perfectly legitimate) but any photographer should be able to adapt to
either manual film advance or motorized film advance. It just takes a while
to get used to it. But we are capable of adapting.
I actually quite
I do quite a bit of copy work with molights in the
studio, and I find it a real handicap if the LX winder
is not working. The less you touch the camera,
especially when taking multiple slides, the less
chance there is of screwing up the alignment.
That's the only time I use a winder, if I'm not
John Francis wrote:
That's the primary reason why I have winders for my M-bodies;
not only am I left-eyed, I also wear glasses, making it even
more difficult to advance the film manually.
Ditto. I shot without winders for many years, using my right eye to
focus. But as I aged, my right
In the FWIW Dept, I'm a left eye shooter and a wearer of eye glasses. I
figured out a way to manually advance the film without removing my eye
from the finder. On cameras where the film advance lever ratchets (MX,
LX, Spotmatics,and others I'm sure)) I just push the lever as far out as
possible
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