From: Adam Maas <[email protected]>
Anybody else read
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/05/a-leica-year.html
Mike Johnston's little ode to simplicity and the Leica as a teacher.
I'm seriously thinking about giving the basic concept a try. Not with
a Leica though, but rather with either a Yashica FX-3 or Nikon FM2n
and a fast normal. I don't feel like paying the Leica tax and my FX-3
in particular cost less than the eBay/Paypal transaction fees on even
a cheap M.
It's an aesthetic that I work with my digital gear too. I'm using less
and less gear as time goes on ... one or two nice prime lenses plus
whichever body happens to tickle my fancy on a given day is the bulk
of the equipment I'm using of late (although I continue to like to
experiment and enjoy the other gear occasionally).
I'd rather do it with digital as scanning film is time consuming and
lacking in imagination. My recent experiments with the Pen EE and Tix
show that there is a charm to film images, but the time consuming
nature of the scanning endeavor and the cost of processing make it
somewhat less appealing to work with as a learning medium. To me anyway.
Godfrey
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