hamradio
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I have a '62 Kay solid body that someone else liked as much as I do.
Hardware: cameras and guitars
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charjohncarter
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That is serious use.
Paul T.
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I see the analogy as pretty direct.
Even down to the fact that the original, definitive items are now so pricey that they're too expensive to use. My BP M4 helped pay for a new bedroom... and now I've switched from using the guitar pictured to a modern Custom Shop Mary Kay, just to ease me into the moment when my son asks how he can pay off the huge college fees our current government so thoughtfully imposed on the next generation...
My other black-paint M4:
Even down to the fact that the original, definitive items are now so pricey that they're too expensive to use. My BP M4 helped pay for a new bedroom... and now I've switched from using the guitar pictured to a modern Custom Shop Mary Kay, just to ease me into the moment when my son asks how he can pay off the huge college fees our current government so thoughtfully imposed on the next generation...
My other black-paint M4:
reagan
hey, they're only Zorkis
Maybe getting back briefly to "...ease of use is a hindrance to creativity" and "I have read Picasso had a similar standpoint In that fewer tools helped creativity."
So is less more? is comfort a handicap?
I mean, if having a bunch of gear is what one wants and enjoys, hey, I got no problem with it. But if expanding the borders of my creativity is what I really want, will a pile of gear get in the way? Will auto-this or auto-that hold me back? Should I discipline myself to choose my "real life one camera, one lens kit", toss the bells and whistles that might distract me, and then stay after it until I start getting the results I'm looking for? (By "stay after it", simply staying, do the hard work, scrap the meter and learn the light, find the best use for that focal-length, keep grinding out the shots, honing, polishing, re-grinding, re-honing, re-polishing til I like what I see.)
Anyone? ... well then, time to go fondle my lenses. :angel:
So is less more? is comfort a handicap?
I mean, if having a bunch of gear is what one wants and enjoys, hey, I got no problem with it. But if expanding the borders of my creativity is what I really want, will a pile of gear get in the way? Will auto-this or auto-that hold me back? Should I discipline myself to choose my "real life one camera, one lens kit", toss the bells and whistles that might distract me, and then stay after it until I start getting the results I'm looking for? (By "stay after it", simply staying, do the hard work, scrap the meter and learn the light, find the best use for that focal-length, keep grinding out the shots, honing, polishing, re-grinding, re-honing, re-polishing til I like what I see.)
Anyone? ... well then, time to go fondle my lenses. :angel:
RichW
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Sometimes imposing limitations can create much more inspiring ideas but I don't understand how "ease of use can be a hindrance to creativity", it just doesn't make sense to me.
I had an electric Ibanez guitar setup with heavy 12 strings, it would never stay in tune and I couldn't get a decent sound out of it, then I bought a Les Paul with lighter strings and it stayed nicely in tune, it felt great to play and sounded amazing through a not particularly great amp - anyway, I feel I can be a lot lot more creative with this guitar than with the Ibanez
If your Leica was acting up, was difficult to advance, had shutter speeds that weren't accurate, a rangefinder patch that was off and had a stiff lens aperture ring, do you think you could get better pictures out of it than you could with a silky smooth CLA'd machine?
R
I had an electric Ibanez guitar setup with heavy 12 strings, it would never stay in tune and I couldn't get a decent sound out of it, then I bought a Les Paul with lighter strings and it stayed nicely in tune, it felt great to play and sounded amazing through a not particularly great amp - anyway, I feel I can be a lot lot more creative with this guitar than with the Ibanez
If your Leica was acting up, was difficult to advance, had shutter speeds that weren't accurate, a rangefinder patch that was off and had a stiff lens aperture ring, do you think you could get better pictures out of it than you could with a silky smooth CLA'd machine?
R
FrankS
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I was trying to find that particular quote where he says that he enjoys playing challenging guitars with a bent neck and slightly out of tune, but I found this quote instead:
* * *“You can't punish me for that. Don't ask me my opinion and then punish me for the answer I give you! Better still, just don't ask. Or don't expect truth. Fruit from the tree of knowledge. I love it! If you think I'm going to give you an opinion that's popular then you are talking to the wrong person. I don't know how to do that. I don't know how to turn my brain off and do what you would like me to do.”
* * *“You can't punish me for that. Don't ask me my opinion and then punish me for the answer I give you! Better still, just don't ask. Or don't expect truth. Fruit from the tree of knowledge. I love it! If you think I'm going to give you an opinion that's popular then you are talking to the wrong person. I don't know how to do that. I don't know how to turn my brain off and do what you would like me to do.”
reagan
hey, they're only Zorkis
Sounds like Dylan in his youth. He had a rep for hating interviews, so I wondered back then, if he disliked journalists so much and spent all of his interview time jerking the interviewer around, why not just say "No thanks" and stay home?
"Don't ... punish me for the answer I give you!" Right. If you're not going to agree with me, you deserve to be lied to ... so don't talk to me.
Those funny guys. 🙄