steamer
Well-known
This thread reminds me of the old Mulla Nasrudin story:
One day Mulla Nasrudin was sprinkling bread crumbs on the ground around his house.
"Mulla, what are you doing?" a neighbor asked.
"I want to keep the tigers away."
"But there are no tigers within hundreds of miles."
" It works, doesn't it."
One day Mulla Nasrudin was sprinkling bread crumbs on the ground around his house.
"Mulla, what are you doing?" a neighbor asked.
"I want to keep the tigers away."
"But there are no tigers within hundreds of miles."
" It works, doesn't it."
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Dave Wilkinson
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If the pension would run to it - I might enjoy having a "bloated whale of a travesty" - even if the results are not "photographs", and I am disappointed to learn that Roger and Frances are not "beacons of rangefinder film photography". Ah well!...at least us true apostles can uphold the honourable tradition!.
Dave.
PS I shall burn my copy of 'Rangefinder' by Hicks & Shultz immediately
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Dave Wilkinson
Veteran
Boniface XIII;1263454 Am I perhaps missing something? Apologies said:As Agatha Christies's Hercule Poirot would say :- "the little grey cells"!
Chris101
summicronia
best post so far
Thanks Um! I've rebranded some other cameras too, but these are my favorites. I call the IR camera, 'Nekron', because it makes everyone look dead (and because it's a play on 'Nikon'.)
I think it's ugly but, more importantly, the 'things' it produces are ugly. Pretending to the photograph, these pixel maps ultimately only highlight the importance of photography itself and demonstrate via the ersatz photograph how sad it is that the art is succombing to the need for speed of transmission from Baghdad/Kabul to N.Y./D.C.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Again, sorry, don't agree. A lot depends on where you draw THE LINE. If THE LINE is 'film vs digital' that's one thing. If it's 'colour vs mono' that's another. If it's 'film vs plates' that's another again. Or 'dry plate vs wet plate'. And so forth. The phrase plus royaliste que le roi (more royalist than the king) springs to mind.
Cheers,
R.
reuno
Log out, go shoot.
The anti-tape/stealth approach?
Leica M3 avatar limited edition ?
Dave Wilkinson
Veteran
That is an argument I certainly can undersand, but can neither respect nor endorse. If it is not luminaries such as you and your wife who will help preserve the magic of the silver halide, who will?? Couldn't you lecture at a top Uni in the U.K. or elsewhere? I'm sure you could, rather than embroiling yourself in the pixel rush for your livelihood.
Compared to the glorious Ms (even the flimsy M6), it feels like a toy. And 'bloated whale' is a term I didn't even coin. But I agree with it.Roger Hicks said:
What is 'monochrome'?Roger Hicks said:
As a term it is inferior even to the already reductive 'black and white', for silver halide photography is about the joys of a seemingly limitless palette of greys, from absolute white to absolute black and everything inbetween.
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Mr. Hicks, I haven't drawn any 'line'. As for being holier than the Pope, I feel no such thing; all I see is that the paucity of the pixel is a pauper's vision compared to the infinitesimal riches of silver halides. And I was surprised that your eyes can stand it. Sorry, let this be just a parenthesis in this thread about tape; I didn't know that you used those things and was taken aback, just as I was when I learned of a similar (but worse!) decision on the part of Ascough.
To each his own.
umcelinho
Marcelo
Never taped my chrome M6. Thought of trying gaffer tape to cover the camera a bit and give it a badly worn look though, as some areas where I live are pretty dangerous to walk around with a camera. At least I will have my own view on the reactions in the street to a taped or not taped camera.
I've read that having gaffer tape for a long time in a camera or anything can get pretty gooey and sticky, has anyone left tape for a long time (6 months, a year?) and removed it safely?
I've read that having gaffer tape for a long time in a camera or anything can get pretty gooey and sticky, has anyone left tape for a long time (6 months, a year?) and removed it safely?
