On Jan 3, 2008, at 6:10 AM, frank theriault wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 7:15 PM, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ... 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.
Unobtrusiveness is a matter of how the photographer acts vs how noticeable the camera is. Just because someone knows you have made a photograph doesn't mean that you cannot make several additional exposures unobtrusively and candidly ... I think you're mixing up "covert" and "candid". I interact with my subjects. They know I have a camera and that I'm taking pictures. They know I've photographed them. Yet I still get candid photos ... even when I was shooting with a Hasselblad 500CM. :-) I still love rangefinder cameras, however. A fantasy camera that I'd love to see is a Leica CL sized, interchangeable lens, rangefinder camera, based on the 4/3 System sensor format, with both high quality optical RF focusing system, electronically coupled rather than through cams and levers (you can drive standard 4/3 lenses with their servos or use a manual focus lens with electronic connection) and Live View. To keep it thin, make a small series of dedicated lenses and provide a mount adapter to allow full spec 4/3 System lenses. A camera like this with a dedicate lens kit comprised of an 11mm f/ 3.5, 20mm f/2 and 32mm f/1.4 manual focus lenses would be perfect. :-) Godfrey -- 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.
