On Jan 2, 2008 7:15 PM, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One can work with an SLR that way, as I have demoed a few > times, but most folks figure that when the are looking > through the lens they have to fiddle focus. > > I will forever remember flabbergasting Mister Bunnyears at > GFM. He was going on about how you could not do unobtrusive > street photography with a winder equipped camera when I > lifted my MX to my eye shot a photo of him and dropped the > camera down before letting it wind on. He stammered an > incredulous, "What did you just do?" > > It is definitely not what camera you have, but how you use it. > > But even after saying that, I still love rangefinder cameras.
I agree with most of what you say, Tom. I don't think I'd have ever said that one ~can't~ do street photography with either an SLR or a camera with a winder. I believe that I said that a small rangefinder is the "preferable tool", insofar is it's "more unobtrusive" than other cameras. I agree that it's "not what camera you have, but how you use it", but surely as skilled and artful one might be, the smaller and more quiet the camera, the less chance it will be noticed. Yes, you got a shot of me on the sly - the first shot. You dropped the camera, let the winder go, and I heard it, asking "what did you do?" The next shot was then taken away from you - unless you wanted a shot of me looking at you and the camera. The winder noise made certain you couldn't get more than one candid shot of me, thus proving my point. ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
