[LRflex] Re: Ted's digital advice.

Alex Hurst offered:
Subject: [LRflex] Ted's digital advice.


> >Alex Hurst asked:
> And Ted replied in part:
>>No different in learning to drive, it's one thing at a time and once 
>>that's
>>mastered move onto the next. Gradually the machine in hand wont feel any
>>different than the film camera you've used for years. Just as simple as
>>breathing.<<<<<<

Alex replyed
> Good analogy Ted. I'm over the 'chimping' stage already - it disturbs
> the flow too much when you're shooting people. Now I have to learn
> that I can afford to be more profligate with my shots as all I'm
> throwing away with the rejects is electrons rather than expensive
> film.<<<

Hi Alex,
When we, that's all of the Leica crew who've gained a digital camera go 
through the shoot-look-chimp routine in the beginning, I think it's as much 
curiosity and there's the image right.... "NOW!" sort of excited re-action 
to see it.

I mean why wouldn't there be an excitment level with digital. Certainly when 
in the norm of exposing film there's always the time factor from exposure to 
darkroom, light table, darkroom, maybe a day or so later to see the results.

> What did amaze me in Italy was not the quantity of digital cameras (I
> think I only saw four or five people using film in the whole time I
> was there), but the forlorn hope that most people had that they'd get
> a good shot holding the camera at arm's length and looking at a tiny
> screen. At least I've schooled my wife to frame approximately using
> the Coolpix screen, but to shoot through the optical v/f with the
> camera braced firmly against her face.<<<<

The digi shooters who hold their camera at arms length drive me crazy also. 
But I've tried to look through the tiny simplistic "so called viewfinder" on 
some of them and it's extremely difficult. There are some with no view 
finder only the screen to look at so the user has no option but to hold it 
at a distance where their eyes will focus. And pray a lot when going click! 
;-)

Someone who's accoustomed to using a view finder camera, we Leica user, are 
far more inclined to look through the viewfinder because that's our routine. 
But for rookies it must be hell trying to see anything in those tiny 
windows. So they don't have much choice to do as they do... arms length.

What's more amazing is the sometimes not bad quality for family happy snaps 
they achive with this method.

>> Thanks again for the sage advice.<<<

You are welcome and some times I'm a little tardy at answering mail, sorry.
ted

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