Let's hear it for the dslr!

[januaryman]

Dear Jim,

Not necessarily. I've been using Leicas for 40+ years and have no plans for changing. Mind you, I've used most other kinds of cameras as well, but I've not been without at least one Leica since 1969.

Cheers,

R.

Roger-- Of course you are right that if you find what works, you want to stick with it. What I said was perhaps a bit too didactic; I meant that one must allow for the chance that you may change your mind. I once swore I'd never shoot rangefinders. Then I said I'd never try another SLR. I swore off film, then swore off digital. Now I use whatever I have. Maybe I was referring to my own fickle nature! 😉

 

[snausages]

I agree that shooting many pictures and make a tough edit is one of the key for the success. But IMHO it depends also on occasion. Of course for a sport photographer, or anyway an action photographer it is an advantage the possibility to work like this. Nothing against it. My question (which is not complaining or refusing this way to work) is that I'm told DSLR with their automatism (autofocus, exposure etc) leave the photographer the possibility to concentrate more on the subject and the composition. Now if it is so (and the tecnical aspect are ok because of automatism) they would need less picture to get the right one compared to the people that have to concentrate also on technical aspects to be set manually. Of course just my opinion,regards
robert

When it comes to a picture of a scene, what is 'the right one'?

You're assuming that a scene affords one Correct shot, as if solving arithmetic.

But if there are many good interpretations of a scene, why not take more photos?

 

[David Hughes]

The point has to be made that every now and then I take out something basic/primitive just so that I don't forget how to take a picture, properly. Of course, every one else's' idea of proper picture taking may well be a lot different from mine.

Regards, David

 

[Roger Hicks]

When it comes to a picture of a scene, what is 'the right one'?

You're assuming that a scene affords one Correct shot, as if solving arithmetic.

But if there are many good interpretations of a scene, why not take more photos?

If you aren't going to use them all, why shoot them?

You're not going to show people 43 almost identical pictures (if you make a habit of doing so, you deserve to be shot, and not with a camera).

Sooner or later you have to pick the shots you want to use, whether ;use' is illustrating a magazine article, hanging on the wall, or anything else. 'Sooner' is at the time you shoot'; 'later' is at the time you edit. In fact I think I'll start a thread on this...

Cheers,

R.

 

[jsrockit]

Be aware that the D700 does not show 100% of the image in the VF, this comes to light when it is shot along side a D3 which does.

Yeah, I know, thanks. I was horrified when I saw this being that the D700 is about the only DSLR I like (due to size, FF, lens with aperture rings, etc)... but I tested it and thought it was fine in practice. I also don't mind using live view.

When I shoot film M's I just don't worry about precision framing, I guess because the review comes hours later in the darkroom.

Exactly... or days later, or weeks later, etc.

 

[snausages]

If you aren't going to use them all, why shoot them?

You're not going to show people 43 almost identical pictures (if you make a habit of doing so, you deserve to be shot, and not with a camera).

Sooner or later you have to pick the shots you want to use, whether ;use' is illustrating a magazine article, hanging on the wall, or anything else. 'Sooner' is at the time you shoot'; 'later' is at the time you edit. In fact I think I'll start a thread on this...

Cheers,

R.

Never said all of the shots would be worth showing people. Just said that I don't think there's one 'correct' shot in a given scene, so why not keep exploring, keep digging for something beyond your first take on what you see.

 

[robert blu]

After reading so many comments I think that in the digital world "editing" is the magic word. Of course it is also in the analog worls, but numbers are different!
robert
PS Unfortunately last week a friend on my wife show us 200 images from her last trip. 80 % of them were almost identical and the ones really good disappeared in the group...ah, editing...

 

[emraphoto]

Editing indeed. Every once in a while I visit Flickr to view a topic, location whatever and flipping through 8 pages of the same shot can be annoying.

In the press image banks though it an equal $ though.