palker
Established
After one year I sold my M8.
I really tried to like the camera, I simply wanted to like it, I used it non-stop for a year, but alas I am not good enough.
At first I like the wide angle viewfinder, being able to see what was happening outside the frame, but over time became frustrated with the lack of precise frame lines. The lack of any possibility to close crop a photograph with any level of confidence, left me with additional post processing activities.
At first I thrived with the manual focusing, the ability to decide where I wanted to focus gave me a challenge to strive to get the essence of the subject without necessarily being obsessed with sharpness. Then I realized I was discarding more and more photographs in my post processing because what was in focus was wrong.
Now I have a 6month old daughter and I have to admit that I cannot handle the camera with any sense of speed. The time it takes me to react to a situation I can see building up in front of me means I’ve missed the photo. I’m just too slow. I cannot focus and frame on such a small unpredictable subject.
I have tried so many times, but I have not been being able to track any moving subject, or time the exposure correctly.
Whilst my daughter might be young my eyes are not, the effort of trying to focus sharp photos on my daughter’s eyes would give me a headache, especially using a summilux and a focus area approximately covering the same area as a 21mm. Focusing in the dark was simply focusing in the dark .. not happening.
However I have re-discovered the simplicity of fixed primes, and will get some fast primes when I sell the Leica glass I’ve collected over this last year.
This may very well my last post, so I wish you all good luck.
Sadly,
Phil.
I really tried to like the camera, I simply wanted to like it, I used it non-stop for a year, but alas I am not good enough.
At first I like the wide angle viewfinder, being able to see what was happening outside the frame, but over time became frustrated with the lack of precise frame lines. The lack of any possibility to close crop a photograph with any level of confidence, left me with additional post processing activities.
At first I thrived with the manual focusing, the ability to decide where I wanted to focus gave me a challenge to strive to get the essence of the subject without necessarily being obsessed with sharpness. Then I realized I was discarding more and more photographs in my post processing because what was in focus was wrong.
Now I have a 6month old daughter and I have to admit that I cannot handle the camera with any sense of speed. The time it takes me to react to a situation I can see building up in front of me means I’ve missed the photo. I’m just too slow. I cannot focus and frame on such a small unpredictable subject.
I have tried so many times, but I have not been being able to track any moving subject, or time the exposure correctly.
Whilst my daughter might be young my eyes are not, the effort of trying to focus sharp photos on my daughter’s eyes would give me a headache, especially using a summilux and a focus area approximately covering the same area as a 21mm. Focusing in the dark was simply focusing in the dark .. not happening.
However I have re-discovered the simplicity of fixed primes, and will get some fast primes when I sell the Leica glass I’ve collected over this last year.
This may very well my last post, so I wish you all good luck.
Sadly,
Phil.
