why i'm looking at gear differently these days...

[back alley]

Joe, post the photo here. I didn't see where you posted it before. I'm glad to see you happy about your work, it is better than you always think it is.

 

[Sparrow]

Sometimes stuff happen that shake ones grasp on reality ... not blaming anybody, just saying ...

 

[Sparrow]

PS I agree about the photo joe

 

[redisburning]

I'm touched by the irony of the boldface phrase having just read the account of David Burnett missing an image of Kim Phuc and other children burned by napalm in 1972, because he was struggling to reload a Leica, possibly a M2.

well, that is pretty funny.

 

[Jonnyfez]

Limitations of any particular piece of photography gear don't exist IMO ... unless maybe where you're photographing motor sports or similar.

When I start to get too entrenched in technology and this way of thinking I grab an old 1933 Voigtlander Brilliant I own and go out and use it for a roll or two. It makes me realise very quickly that this camera, as basic as it is, still has more ability than I do!

If I had the courage to put all my high tech camera gear into a box and bury it somewhere, leaving myself only that little Voigtlander scale focus TLR, I'd learn a damned site more about actual photography than I'm learning currently. New and shiny is great but it teaches you nothing!

"New and shiny is great but it teaches you nothing!"

I like that. Sums it up perfectly.

I went through 20+ years of film last year and realized my best shots were always with a 50mm. I know it well and can make it work for me.

The more options I have the more my photography suffers!

 

[rhl-oregon]

It is a great shot of which only photographers would ask, What did you shoot it with?

I see two moments in the pageant, interrupting the procession, where two men are taking time to be husbandry and fatherly, and each is arresting. And I very much like the desire to include the crowd, the flow they've temporarily left. Another part of me wants to edit the shot so it magnifies and balances the two pairs. But that is all lagniappe with the shot in hand. And the pleasure of having gotten it really does remind you that the gear is secondary to the zen of seeing.

 

[back alley]

shot with rd1 and cv 21...