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Natalia
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perhaps simply RFFers
Guy or Gal?
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ReeF'rs... Like in ReeFr Madness??? May fit, Wrong Decade.
"Hey Baby, Let's Split This Scene" Has a very different meaning looking through an RF. Ahhh The '70s.
My Mind, Dave...
"Hey Baby, Let's Split This Scene" Has a very different meaning looking through an RF. Ahhh The '70s.
My Mind, Dave...
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Kin Lau
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Aren't the 70's the best decade for the RF's? All the best RF's seem to be late 60's early 70's models. Of course the LTM & Contax years were earlier, but critical mass seems to be the 70's.
I would say the 1950's was the "Golden" age for Rangefinder cameras. Leica M3 and M2, Nikon SP, Canon VI, Canon P, Contax IIIa and IIa, Retina IIIS,
Before the Darkness set in, In The form of SLR mirror black-out...
The 70's was more the Swan Song; the age of compact Fixed-Lens Rangefinder cameras.
Before the Darkness set in, In The form of SLR mirror black-out...
The 70's was more the Swan Song; the age of compact Fixed-Lens Rangefinder cameras.
sockeyed
Well-known
What a sausage fest this forum is! Thank god that we're not all here looking for dates.
It is interesting that most of the women I know who are into photography are shooting digital, as has been mentioned.
But what's also interesting is that I'm taking a photography and darkroom course right now (as an excuse to get back into a darkroom), and I am the only guy in the class, including the instructor.
None of the women seem to be very interested in talking about gear, though...
It is interesting that most of the women I know who are into photography are shooting digital, as has been mentioned.
But what's also interesting is that I'm taking a photography and darkroom course right now (as an excuse to get back into a darkroom), and I am the only guy in the class, including the instructor.
None of the women seem to be very interested in talking about gear, though...
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Kin Lau
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Manolo Gozales said:Hey
I'll just chuck my new (to me) 1961 M2 in the bin then, shall I?
Salud!
ManGo
Yes.. chuck it. I'll even send you the postage so that it ends up in the correct bin
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Kin Lau
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Brian Sweeney said:
Yes... I'd much rather have anyone of the above list, and I don't argue it. My point was that of critical mass. Million's of RF's were made and sold in the 70's, and it's also the main reason why most of us are here.
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tedwhite
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In my Fall Introduction to Black and Whit Film Photography class at a nearby college I had eleven women and two men (one guy later dropped out). In my Spring class I have eleven women and two men. None of them seem more than mildly interested in gear. I've brought in for examination a Speed Graphic, Kiev 4A, Yashica Electro 35 GSN, Maxxum 7 with lenses, Olympus XA, Asahi Pentax Spotmatics with a variety of lenses. Ho hum.
All they seem to care about is getting the camera (any camera) to work properly so they can get a decentl negative, and then to make a decent print. However, they're having a great deal of fun - many say it's their best class.
And I'm a guy who can spend half an hour just looking at a Leica. Or a Bessa, etc.
Perhaps the women in the class, who range in age from 15 to 40, have figured out that photography is an even playing field when it comes to getting good. Muscles are irrelevant.
The other day I quipped that looking through an RF was the only way you could have double vision without being drunk. Dead silence.
BTW, if you want to read my latest column ("The Class") about teaching just such a photography class, it's in an internet magazine I regularly write for:
www.bisbeemarquee.com/
Under my name in the regular contributors (or columns). To see some of my pics, go to the Galleries section and scroll down.
Cheers,
Ted
All they seem to care about is getting the camera (any camera) to work properly so they can get a decentl negative, and then to make a decent print. However, they're having a great deal of fun - many say it's their best class.
And I'm a guy who can spend half an hour just looking at a Leica. Or a Bessa, etc.
Perhaps the women in the class, who range in age from 15 to 40, have figured out that photography is an even playing field when it comes to getting good. Muscles are irrelevant.
The other day I quipped that looking through an RF was the only way you could have double vision without being drunk. Dead silence.
BTW, if you want to read my latest column ("The Class") about teaching just such a photography class, it's in an internet magazine I regularly write for:
www.bisbeemarquee.com/
Under my name in the regular contributors (or columns). To see some of my pics, go to the Galleries section and scroll down.
Cheers,
Ted
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Graham Line
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There are several very well-regarded women photographers here at the newspaper mill, but only one of them uses an RF regularly and none of them spend much time on-line. A friend who teaches community college-level photography classes says women students outnumber men, but are generally more interested in images and processes than hardware.
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yankeedoll
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There have been a number of well-respected women photographers over the years.
I am new to the forum with little actual experience and have just discovered the joy of shooting with a rangefinder. Yet I am just as interested in camera equipment as I am in what I can do with it.
I am new to the forum with little actual experience and have just discovered the joy of shooting with a rangefinder. Yet I am just as interested in camera equipment as I am in what I can do with it.
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Natalia
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yankeedoll said:
That's just how I feel.....
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Kin Lau
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So it's Natalia, AndColor, dmr436 and yankeedoll, but only 3 voted.
I think there's been a few more gal's recently, so lets bump this one back up.
I think there's been a few more gal's recently, so lets bump this one back up.
Wayne R. Scott
Half fast Leica User
Bump. Stephanie B. needs to vote
Wayne
Wayne
jbw
Member
One More.........Woo Hoo!! Girl Power....
MCTuomey
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I find that far more men photograph in my area than women, but that women seem far more interested in looking at photos than men, especially of people. Of course, there are plenty of exceptions ...
tajart
ancien
i know many women who use rangefinders and other cameras as well. at my univ i'd venture to say there are more women in the darkroom than men. they're using everything from rebels to nikons, holgas, rolleis, and in my intro course this term one woman has a 'blad. history has shown that there are numerous great photographers, many of whom were/are women. ah yes, and i know several women who are currently leica shooters as well as an occasional zorki, zenit, and kiev shooters.
Fedzilla_Bob
man with cat
When all is said and done, it is the photographer that takes the picture and not the gender... Right?
Now that I have said that I get to refute, in part, what I just said. I doubt a man would have had Diane Arbus or Annie Liebowitz POV.
Now that I have said that I get to refute, in part, what I just said. I doubt a man would have had Diane Arbus or Annie Liebowitz POV.
ent2b
SLR->DSLR->RF->Bankrupt
with such good women:men ratios in class, i think i'll take a photog course at my local jr college this summer!
there was an excellent thread along these gender lines on fredmiranda about a month ago, but can't find it now. Basically, several of the women posters there had stated that as women, many of them had kids, household stuff in addition to work to take care of, and hence, they spent neither that much time posting on the forums or being hardware "geeks" due to greater limitations on their time. They wanted to take pics, look at them, learn, and then take more pics rather than getting stuck in the equipment end of it.
there was an excellent thread along these gender lines on fredmiranda about a month ago, but can't find it now. Basically, several of the women posters there had stated that as women, many of them had kids, household stuff in addition to work to take care of, and hence, they spent neither that much time posting on the forums or being hardware "geeks" due to greater limitations on their time. They wanted to take pics, look at them, learn, and then take more pics rather than getting stuck in the equipment end of it.
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Heath
Classic Camera Collector
I am a member of another photography forum that has more women members than men. You should see these girls go on about their equipment (photographic equipment). There are many great photographers there, mainly doing portrait work, but some do fine art. Most use digital SLR's, some use MF (including the infamous Holga) and one even uses large format. I even directed one of the women here when she had some questions about her Leica, but she doesn't seem to have turned up.
Heath
Oh yeah, the other forum is I Love Photography.
Heath
Oh yeah, the other forum is I Love Photography.
Uncle Bill
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Natalia,
I think the big problem is we are nerds, I do not mean that in a derrogatory sense. We are passionate about photgraphy and the equipment we use, due to that we can get obessive. I hate to say this, it is mostly a guy thing, most women photographers I know see their camera gear as just a tool and that is it. The other thing is years ago most women who ventured onto forums were hit on or harrassed which is wrong on so may levels. I would love a woman's perspective especially looking at my ever expanding portfolio which I will post sometime in my copious free time and when I can get a scanner.
Uncle Bill
I think the big problem is we are nerds, I do not mean that in a derrogatory sense. We are passionate about photgraphy and the equipment we use, due to that we can get obessive. I hate to say this, it is mostly a guy thing, most women photographers I know see their camera gear as just a tool and that is it. The other thing is years ago most women who ventured onto forums were hit on or harrassed which is wrong on so may levels. I would love a woman's perspective especially looking at my ever expanding portfolio which I will post sometime in my copious free time and when I can get a scanner.
Uncle Bill