One camera/one lens...check this out

[filmfan]

...and I love how you start a gear-oriented thread by saying that gear is over-discussed...

 

[MickH]

I have no doubt that the limiting factor of one camera and one lens has made this chap a better photographer. Know your equipment, refine your technique.

 

[Roberto]

what about those of us who lack artisic vision and or talent?

gear is all we have...

I'm one of them!! :bang:
Let us play with gear.. please! 😀

 

[MartinP]

I'm sick of lenses. I'm going to sell them all and go with the one camera/no lens technique. It'll give me total artistic freedom and I won't be weighed down by gear.

In so far as a pinhole is not a lens, converting an old 120 folder to a pinhole camera may have much to recommend it . . .

 

[bmattock]

I have no doubt that the limiting factor of one camera and one lens has made this chap a better photographer.

I have no doubt that's an unsupported guess.

 

[MickH]

I have no doubt that's an unsupported guess.

No ground-bait required 😀

 

[back alley]

i do practice, every week.
i am at my best right now, imho, and yet, my door remains unbroken.

 

[FrankS]

You just need an agent.

 

[back alley]

my kingdom for an agent!

 

[dcsang]

my kingdom for an agent!

Agent 86 ??

*smirk*
Dave

 

[Larry Manuel]

After laughing out loud ( " Never do they contemplate that perhaps they just suck."), I recall something I read in the Globe and Mail: " S/he was often wrong, but never in doubt".

 

[gb hill]

Agent 99 would be more like it.🙂

 

[kermaier]

I think one of the qualities of rangefinder photography using systems like the Leica M is supposed to be that, with enough practice, the gear becomes transparent to the photographer and fiddling with it no longer impedes his vision. For some, this process is undoubtedly accelerated by working with and mastering (or rejecting) one lens/FoV at a time. And sometimes the first lens turns out to be all that's needed.

Myself, I'm currently bathing in gear and starving for skills, alas.

::Ari

 

[sojournerphoto]

My apologies. We've had about eleventy-dozen threads in the past several months on how great it is to 'limit yourself' in order to 'expand your horizons' and other such pseudo-philosophical claptrap. /quote]

Perhaps this is the ultimate in self limitation? - remove yourself from the process as far as possible and then you can make art.

Or perhaps not🙂

Courtesy of the big auction site

The MD-2 is the best Leica of all, and should be preferred even to the new MP. The MD allows your inner creative being to flourish, free of the limitations imposed by a viewfinder. You are free to shoot directly from the heart, instantly, without the time required for synaptic impulses to travel first from your eye to brain to finger. Freedom from the mental prison of framelines and composition. For the true photographic artist, desiring to take his art to the pinnacle of his creative potential, the viewfinder-less MD provides the purest, most intimate sense of interconnection between man and Leica.

 

[sojournerphoto]

Oh, and Emmanuel Smague says in the onterview that he photographs as a pretext to meet people - perhaps loving people helps him see and lends him some sympathy that goes beyond the technical?

Mike

 

[aad]

Oh, and Emmanuel Smague says in the onterview that he photographs as a pretext to meet people - perhaps loving people helps him see and lends him some sympathy that goes beyond the technical?

Mike

The man obviously loves his subjects, talks to them, enjoys their company and learns their name. Then he makes a picture.

Quite a concept.

 

[ChrisN]

His photography is good stuff -- he has an excellent command of the frame and quite a consistent "feel" among his pictures. I think that having a single lens helps with this, but does not guarantee any particular outcome.

Ben Marks

I recall reading one of Michael Johnson's articles, in which he stated that photographers who use zoom lenses take longer to develop a personal style. Sticking with a single focal length establishes a viewpoint.

But personally, I'm with Joe!

 

[matt335]

Oh, and Emmanuel Smague says in the onterview that he photographs as a pretext to meet people - perhaps loving people helps him see and lends him some sympathy that goes beyond the technical?

Mike

I totally agree. It doesn't matter what camera or lens you use. It just is an extension of you. An extension of the relationship you have with any subject, be it lasting 1 minutes, personal, commercial or just a street-walker that smiles and says hello. To connect in some fashion with people is what I try to do. I try. So, a camera with one lens may make you feel less inhibited to carry more gear and to blend in more. A great thread. Thanks for something different. The photos are great. Here's a challenge - any of you photographers would given the chance to travel to these places do similar work?

 

[maddoc]

horosu, thanks for the link ! Truly inspiring and very well done photography.

I don't care much about what camera and what lens the photographer used but he uses his camera very effectively. 🙂

Cheers,

Gabor

 

[LeicaFoReVer]

Come on guys, try to understand people with empaty. I dont think the OP mean something wrong, he try to express his feelings by saying one lens one body is sometimes enough for dealing photography as amateur, or even as professionally.

There are people like that, I know a world-famous photographer in Turkey has been doing street photography professionally by using M camera and 35mm cron for more than 40 years...

M cameras are good for street photography as we all know because it is compact and quite, and with 35 is a good combo...

And some people like to try all kinds of lenses and pleasured to see different results...there is nothing wrong with both two.

You can be a good photographer in both cases 🙂