On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Cotty <[email protected]> wrote: > ... But if you give me the > option to change a lens, then I will, and then I go broke!
Not necessarily. It's a matter of personal discipline. > ... If you give > me a camera with a lens glued to it, then I have no choice, and have to > work within the confines of the gear - I can hear Godders screaming in > my ear now how that's nuts. ... Not nuts at all. I go weeks at a time with nothing but a normal lens on the camera, or a short portrait tele, or a wide. I love working a particular lens' point of view for long stretches of time rather than zooming in and out, jumping from one FoV to another. > ..Surely the photographer should have creative > freedom and be able to use the tool he/she needs for the job. But I'm > wanting to come from the other direction - give me one tool and then I > will work within its abilities to see what I can do. Who was it ... Gerry Winogrand maybe? .. who said (to paraphrase), 'I'm interested in how the camera sees the subject. None of it is reality, it's what the camera sees and how you see through it." I like that aesthetic a lot. My kit is pretty small. While I have the usual photographer's magpie syndrome to battle, I've gotten old too and want just a very tight, small collection of the right bits. I've made 14 exposures with the Trip 35 so far. Loving it, just like I always did. Forces me to think within its frame of reference, which is limited on speed, on FoV and every other way. If the X100 meets the promise it offers, I'll be in line for it. :-) -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
