i'm doing it: one year, one leica

[aizan]

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/05/a-leica-year.html

in a hugely uncharacteristic move, i just went to the local camera shop and put a leica mp on layaway. there's no getting out of this one! 😱

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Good luck! I am too much of a gear nerd to do it, but I have a lot of respect for you. You should blog your year.

 

[Pickett Wilson]

Uh, oh. I see a long term challenge on the way!

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

I dare you to spend a decade framing imaginary photographs with your thumbs and index fingers, then describing the photographs in a notebook!

 

[aizan]

sounds like a project for georges perec.

 

[back alley]

if one camera and one lens for a year will improve one's photography...just think what 2 or 3 cameras and as many lenses will do...😉

 

[__hh]

Send me all your other camera gear for "safe keeping" and to make sure that you don't give in to your withdrawals 🙂

Good luck. I don't think the camera industry endorses this and wish for your failure as it would mean the death of their sales throughput.

 

[aizan]

bouncing between cameras and lenses isn't really working for me...jack of all trades, master of none. i think the best thing would be to make a solid commitment, and hang on for dear life.

 

[back alley]

as the shooters say...beware the man with one gun...

 

[Benjamin]

as the shooters say...beware the man with one gun...

Indeed, this is true.

 

[MickH]

TBH I think it's something that would do me good. I spend far too much time thinking about which camera/format/lens to use, worrying that I might miss a trick taking the wrong kit with me when I go out (what a tart!). One day I'll sort myself out, decide what I like, get rid of the rest, go out on a shoot & get hit by a bus.

Aizan, good luck mate. I like Mabelsound's idea of blogging it.

 

[bgb]

Nice idea and brave of you i think ... but it could be done with any camera ... one camera, one lens and one film type maybe ... I'll take a Hasselblad.

 

[MickH]

Are you allowed to change straps or carry the camera in different bags from time to time?

The occasional change of clothes may be permitted too I guess. 🙂

I have a spare hair shirt which could be made available.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

sounds like a project for georges perec.

!!!! Heck yes! He was the literary king of the amusing limiting exercise. I use him in my classes all the time...forcing students to write a short story without using "e".

 

[Quinn Porter]

We know you'll be using an MP, but which lens and film?

 

[aizan]

i haven't decided yet. the mp is .72, so i can probably cross off 28mm because i wear glasses. i have one 35mm (summicron asph), and two 50mm lenses (m-hexanon and f1.4 nikkor ltm). i haven't used the nikkor much, and this would be a good opportunity to get really familiar with it.

as for film, i was thinking hp5, just because tri-x would be sooooo cliche. 😉

 

[35mmdelux]

great goal. Good luck.

 

[bolohead]

I don't know if I could go a year without clicking the "Classifieds" link. Good luck on your journey. I'd definitely subscribe if you blogged it.

 

[Sjixxxy]

Are you allowed to change straps or carry the camera in different bags from time to time?

But time in a bag is time where the camera isn't immediatly ready to take a photo. 😉 Just saying....

 

[splitimageview]

I think I'll do this, too. One camera, one lens....at a time.