emraphoto
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brilliant DNG! raising it a bar with the f1.5 bit hey?
I did the 'one lens, one camera' thing years ago when that was all I could afford.
John
I did the 'one lens, one camera' thing years ago when that was all I could afford.
John
Dear John,
Me too. That's why I WON'T do it now.
Sod 'less is more'. When it comes to choosing the right camera/lens for a particular application, more is more,
Until you can't work out what to use, that is. But if you can't choose the right gear for the job, the problem lies with you, not with the gear.
Cheers,
R.
How but ONE Gal...lets make it a Bit FUN...😛 !!!!
who will
shoot only 50mm ... ( Nokton 1.1. 50 cron. 50 lux)
only 400 Film ... (TriX,Tmax,Neopan)
Starting Today...7 August 2010
Anyone Else in the SPIRIT >?
Dear John,
Me too. That's why I WON'T do it now.
Sod 'less is more'. When it comes to choosing the right camera/lens for a particular application, more is more,
Until you can't work out what to use, that is. But if you can't choose the right gear for the job, the problem lies with you, not with the gear.
Cheers,
R.
As I said to Kolame, there is a guy, who only started photography 3 years ago, but evidently, on some good advice, he bought an M7 and just one lens - 35/2 Summicron ASPH. I believe, he only shoots Tri- X, and from the grain I see on photos I bought from him, it might be he develops everything in Rodinal.
Just look at what he did in 3 years:
http://www.smague.fr/
It does not look to me like he feels limited by one lens. On the contrary, he has mastered the composition and he learned how to approach his subjects in order to get the best out of his tool. I am convinced, that if he had 20 or so M lenses, like I do, he would probably be still undecided about what and how to photograph.
Don't do what that guy tells you to do. Do what I tell you to do.
As I said to Kolame, there is a guy, who only started photography 3 years ago, but evidently, on some good advice, he bought an M7 and just one lens - 35/2 Summicron ASPH. I believe, he only shoots Tri- X, and from the grain I see on photos I bought from him, it might be he develops everything in Rodinal.
Just look at what he did in 3 years:
http://www.smague.fr/
It does not look to me like he feels limited by one lens. On the contrary, he has mastered the composition and he learned how to approach his subjects in order to get the best out of his tool. I am convinced, that if he had 20 or so M lenses, like I do, he would probably be still undecided about what and how to photograph.
There is one German I’m following for the whole year now, he started it out with a MP and a 50mm (forgot, which one), his website is: http://www.skt1.de/
It’s in German. But you can see the results sorted by month on the left side. Now you may compare the January-results, to the ones following.
As I said to Kolame, there is a guy, who only started photography 3 years ago, but evidently, on some good advice, he bought an M7 and just one lens - 35/2 Summicron ASPH. I believe, he only shoots Tri- X, and from the grain I see on photos I bought from him, it might be he develops everything in Rodinal.
Just look at what he did in 3 years:
http://www.smague.fr/
It does not look to me like he feels limited by one lens. On the contrary, he has mastered the composition and he learned how to approach his subjects in order to get the best out of his tool. I am convinced, that if he had 20 or so M lenses, like I do, he would probably be still undecided about what and how to photograph.
I just can't understand why BB King would limit himself almost exclusively to 6-tring electric guitars of the Gibson ES-355 lineage (and all named Lucille). Similarly, I am perplexed that Glen Gould recorded almost exclusively on a single, temperamental Steinway piano, even when he was playing music written for the harpsichord. Sviatoslav Richter did that, too -- played harpsichord music on a piano, when I sure that someone would gladly have let him use their harpsichord or a Hammond B3.
Can anyone explain these things to me? Why are these people so stubborn? They make me nervous.
I just can't understand why BB King would limit himself almost exclusively to 6-string electric guitars of the Gibson ES-355 lineage (and all named Lucille). Similarly, I am perplexed that Glen Gould recorded almost exclusively on a single, temperamental Steinway piano, even when he was playing music written for the harpsichord. Sviatoslav Richter did that, too -- played harpsichord music on a piano, when I sure that someone would gladly have let him use their harpsichord, or a Hammond B3, or a Theremin.
Can anyone explain these things to me? Why are these people so stubborn? They make me nervous.