Thomaspin
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solane
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i like the post about "throw away your lens cap and case" but the site will not allow me to post comments without first becoming a member of blogger. imho, its a bit challenging for the site to be a discussion if it can only be used by other blogger members.
about cameras, bags and caps:
i am the pristine camera fanatics worst nightmare. my cameras, even my freakishly expensive dSLR, go straight into my velcro messenger bag without any padding. i do have a lens wrap that i use to shield the more fragile cameras from dust and bottom-of-bag debris. for the record, timbuk2 bags are amazingly waterproof (PM me if you want the horror story about how i found out!) i know one day my rangefinders will vibrate out of alignment as i putter across town on my vintage vespa with my cameras rattling away on my back. and probably, some electrical circuitry (from my more expensive digital or electrical cameras) will be rattled loose from the experience as well, but i am more apt to carry and use my camera(s) if i can get at it quickly. cameras were meant to be used and i intend to (at least try to) use every camera i own for as long as it will allow.
about cameras, bags and caps:
i am the pristine camera fanatics worst nightmare. my cameras, even my freakishly expensive dSLR, go straight into my velcro messenger bag without any padding. i do have a lens wrap that i use to shield the more fragile cameras from dust and bottom-of-bag debris. for the record, timbuk2 bags are amazingly waterproof (PM me if you want the horror story about how i found out!) i know one day my rangefinders will vibrate out of alignment as i putter across town on my vintage vespa with my cameras rattling away on my back. and probably, some electrical circuitry (from my more expensive digital or electrical cameras) will be rattled loose from the experience as well, but i am more apt to carry and use my camera(s) if i can get at it quickly. cameras were meant to be used and i intend to (at least try to) use every camera i own for as long as it will allow.
DougK
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A vintage Vespa and a camera... now that sounds like fun!
Ahem, back on topic....
Thomaspin, I liked the essays, well-written and a very nice site but I would agree with solane that the blog format makes getting a discussion started a little tougher.
Ahem, back on topic....
Thomaspin, I liked the essays, well-written and a very nice site but I would agree with solane that the blog format makes getting a discussion started a little tougher.
Thomaspin
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Gentlemen - thanks for pointing that out. I discovered there is a setting I had to change to allow anyone to comment. Please accept my apologies. Clearly, not a useful medium for exchange the way I had it set up! If you would care to cut and paste your comments above into my blog that would be greatly appreciated.
hoot
green behind the ears
Just read through the whole thing. Very insightful and well-phrased. It went down like good red wine. Keep writing, and I'll keep reading.
the sloth
Member
hopefully I wont sound too much like an a-hole but I think theres a big problem with blogs like that and forums like this:
99% of people on them enjoy the gear more than the pictures. All this academic hoopla and intellectual discussion on photographs for the most part is garbola. Its so wierd that 99.9999% of 'photographers' will go on and on about cameras and lenses and the philosophies behind it and blah blah blah, but where are the freaking pictures???? No where. Its always crazy when I go on the internet looking for pictures that I like and for the most part theyre not there, because people who post stuff on the internet would rather discuss gear and stupid technical details and a whole lot of the academic crud of photography than actually take and display them.
blah.
maybe ill start a blog or whatever that actually has to do with what matters: the pictures.
99% of people on them enjoy the gear more than the pictures. All this academic hoopla and intellectual discussion on photographs for the most part is garbola. Its so wierd that 99.9999% of 'photographers' will go on and on about cameras and lenses and the philosophies behind it and blah blah blah, but where are the freaking pictures???? No where. Its always crazy when I go on the internet looking for pictures that I like and for the most part theyre not there, because people who post stuff on the internet would rather discuss gear and stupid technical details and a whole lot of the academic crud of photography than actually take and display them.
blah.
maybe ill start a blog or whatever that actually has to do with what matters: the pictures.
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ray_g
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Thanks for the link, Thomas. Enjoyable reading. And I appreciate the link to Strand. I lived in NYC for a few years, and loved to go there. I never thought about checking them out on the web since I moved north.
Thomaspin
Member
Let me help you, o slothful one!
Let me help you, o slothful one!
Web Site - A place on the web which displays pictures
Photoblog - A place on the web which displays pictures open to comment
Mouse - A device, seemingly not attached to all computers, which you click to go places.
Click, click, click.
Aw! go on - give it a shot.
Photographs, Photographers and Photography
Click, click, click. Just remember to look for the little pointing hand.
Let me help you, o slothful one!
Web Site - A place on the web which displays pictures
Photoblog - A place on the web which displays pictures open to comment
Mouse - A device, seemingly not attached to all computers, which you click to go places.
Click, click, click.
Aw! go on - give it a shot.
Photographs, Photographers and Photography
Click, click, click. Just remember to look for the little pointing hand.
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ray_g
Guest
And by the way, I also enjoyed the photos in your webpage, and saw the link to your book of what, a hundred published photos of London and Paris.
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ray_g
Guest
I guess we were posting at the same time.🙂
vincentbenoit
télémétrique argentique
Excellent stuff! Insightful and well-written. The slightly irreverent tone is very refreshing. (I particularly enjoyed reading your take on Cartier-Bresson). Thanks for the link, I'll keep checking your blog on a regular basis.Thomaspin said:
Cheers
Vincent
Justin Low
J for Justin
Thomas, bravo! Great writing! I've bookmarked your blog and hope to see more. 🙂
hoot
green behind the ears
Sloth, you have a point - but personally, I like to take photos AND philosophize about photography and cameras. The reason I don't post too many photos to the Internet is because it's too much work to scan them.
keeds
Established
solane, i'm with you. just mine is not a vintage vespa... only yesterday i was tottling around town with my d70 and bessa r in my timbuk2..... in the pouring rain!
Dr. Chippendale
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the sloth said:
Well, there are actually many forums where photos get discussed. If I may be so bold as to show my own pics on fotocommunity.com as an example? You can post pictures in your gallery here or over at photo.net and so on.
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