On Monday, March 28, 2005, at 06:25 PM, Jerry Lehrer wrote: > Nick Roberts wrote: > >> Maybe, Jerry - I consider that a direct vision viewfinder is more, >> er, direct, though, and a camera such as a Leica allows me to be at >> one with the subject, whereas a TLR allows me to compose the image - >> if you can forgive such a pompous explanation. >> >> Nick > > Nick, > > If the subject is not a human being, maybe. When a photographer raises > a camera to his face and points it at me, that intrudes. A non-human > subject does not care, so you can use whatever. > > Jerry All this is quite true, but then again, some of my best people shots were taken with a Zorki Look-a-Leica when I was shooting from the hip, as it were, not looking through the viewfinder at all - indeed looking in a totally different direction from the people I was actually engaged in photographing. (I got some superb casual shots of people in the streets of Jerusalem, Israel in the late 60s that way - many Muslims, and some Jews - the super-orthodox ones, mostly - often object to being photographed.) Cheers.