Hi, > "Now comes the hard part. Place all your new wonder pics on a table, and open > up books showing the works of Mr. Smith, or Capa, or Cartier-Bresson, > Stieglitz, or Margaret Bourke-White. Now then, Do your pics compare well with > theirs???... as though I didn't know. Possible of course, but not very damn > well likely."
> It's hardly a reasonable expectation to compare "all your new wonder pics" to a > set of hand picked images out of a lifetimes body of work. :-) I've tried that with my Leica M3, which is precisely the type of manual camera that the aforementioned photographers used. I placed a whole bunch of my wunderbare Leicasnappchen on a table, and I opened up some books by Smith, Capa, HCB &c. Guess what? None of my pics compared well with theirs! I might as well sell it and buy a Nikoltanon-D AF IS with Auto-Esthetix Bluetooth with Rednose attachment for seasonal family snaps. Yours in disappointment, Bob
