bmattock
Veteran
I always wonder why it matters. I've never asked my wife what spatula she used to make pancakes, but trust me, they are works of art. 'Spose it is because of the spatula?
kevin m
Veteran
I love pancakes, so I simply must know what brand of spatula your wife uses!
summaron
Established
Cartier Bresson was not an ostentacious guy and the family was fairly modest. Cartier Bresson and his brother were actively involved in the Resistence, they were very much engaged in social matters, symphathetic to 1968, etc.
I love the 50mm as much as the other person, but it's not really a normal lens, especially when shot vertically--portrait style. The 40mm agreed is normal-ly, if there is indeed a normal...It takes 20 years to really get to know a lens, Brassai says somewhere.
I love the 50mm as much as the other person, but it's not really a normal lens, especially when shot vertically--portrait style. The 40mm agreed is normal-ly, if there is indeed a normal...It takes 20 years to really get to know a lens, Brassai says somewhere.
bmattock
Veteran
I love pancakes, so I simply must know what brand of spatula your wife uses!
I will ask. And you're welcome over anytime for some of her pancakes. You will leave a very happy man if you're a true pancake fan.
bmattock
Veteran
Oh, I agree. I always wonder about the endless arguments, though. HCB used only 50mm lenses and he never cropped! Yes, he did use other lenses and he did crop! No, he didn't, and I hate you now!...etc.
Now, about those pancakes...
I've gone and done it now. Not only do I have others wanting some of my wife's famous pancakes, but here I am in Michigan and she's in North Carolina. I won't be home until later this month. And now I really, really, want some of her pancakes. Mmmm, pancakes....
visiondr
cyclic iconoclast
The key here is: "...if you're a true pancake fan." Some people just don't know the difference between a good pancake and a poor one; sad, but true.
kevin m
Veteran
Well some people think non-stick spatulas are the modern way to cook pancakes; me, I go with aluminum all the way. No other material gives you the elasticity, control, and heat-dispersion characteristics of aluminum.
(OK, I'll stop now. )
(OK, I'll stop now.
)dseelig
David
Robert Frank shot with M6's the Americans 1953? The M6 1984?
funkaoshi
Well-known
Two words: time travel.
Nh3
Well-known
If you think serious photography (not amateur stuff) is like making pancakes then I'm in awe of your confidence.
Photography is like climbing mt. Everest with a gas mask on. If its not that difficult for you then you're a genius photographer.
brachal
Refrigerated User
I heard a story, maybe true, maybe not, that HCB once buried one of his Leicas in the back yard to keep the nazis from finding it, but then could never relocate the spot where he'd buried it. How much of your yard would you dig up, if you knew there was a leica under it?
People get too caught up in gear. A great photographer can make a great image with a Holga, or an old polaroid camera. Some people can't take a decent snapshot with $5000 worth of gear. As an old friend of mine used to say, "It's not the wand; it's the magician."
People get too caught up in gear. A great photographer can make a great image with a Holga, or an old polaroid camera. Some people can't take a decent snapshot with $5000 worth of gear. As an old friend of mine used to say, "It's not the wand; it's the magician."
brachal
Refrigerated User
The spatula has very little to do with it. A well seasoned skillet or griddle ... that makes a difference. As does the liberal use of butter and, of course, skill and experience. But mostly butter.
Rogrund
Antti Sivén
kevin m
Veteran
No way, that's way too easy. Photography is like hunting Moby Dick in a pool float, armed only with a swizzle stick!
FrankS
Registered User
You're taking the easy way if you're using a swizzle stick.
Al Patterson
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Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
I'd suspect that one of those aristocratic pigs the French use for sniffing out truffles would have no trouble at all finding a buried Leica!
35mmdelux
Veni, vidi, vici
The Nazi produced cameras, why would he bury one?
What HCB actually buried were several shoe boxes of fotos. To his "surprise" they were still there at the end of the war.
What HCB actually buried were several shoe boxes of fotos. To his "surprise" they were still there at the end of the war.
kevin m
Veteran
What kind of pancakes did the man like? Good God, can't you people focus!? :bang:
bmattock
Veteran
Yes, he did. Robert Frank could just WANT an M6 to exist and it would. He's like the photographic Chuck Norris. He could make decisive moments happen just by aiming his camera somewhere.