[LRflex] Re: In interesting article (for gear-heads only)
- From: <tedgrant@xxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:09:10 -0700
joseph spinden offered:
Subject: [LRflex] Re: In interesting article (for gear-heads only)
> Actually, without getting lost in the graphs and technical discussion, I
> thought there was an interesting takeaway from the article: You may not
> be getting what you think you are when you use a large aperture lens.
> Since these lenses are much heavier and more expensive, that should be
> significant for every photographer.
Hi Joseph,
My usual fun ranting about gearheads and gear stuff is due to my 60 year
career, tedgrantphoto.com. Where a lens meant I could get something others
couldn't, providing they didn't have the same lens. Technical details? No
idea! Nor did I care.
My feeling in the very early days was as many amateurs go through..... "If
the super fantastic photographer "Joe what's his face" used an XYZ lens then
if I had that lens or camera, I could take the same excellent photos!"
WRONG!
As we all eventually learn, the lens or camera regardless of cost and size,
is only "as good as the photographer using it." The gear is meaningless if
one doesn't use it to take pictures learning HOW it & what it cuts in film
or card. Reading about it and all the technical facts are meaningless to a
photographer using it who shoots by the feelings in his or her gut at the
correct picture moment.
Generally during my years of 35mm, Leica predominently camera/lens use, I've
tried to shoot by the widest possible aperture and highest possible shutter
speed. Other than when I required greater depth of field. So much of the
techie numbers are meaningless because I learned by using, not by reading.
Let alone understanding what the numbers and graphs meant in any event?
So when people get into the techie numbers, facts and figures I usually make
fun of it. Yes I understand very well some folks find it all very
interesting and I have no problem with that. Too each his own. But I've
always been a photographer first and foremost. And facts and figures only if
I absolutely have to know and understand them. I rarely do! :-) Maybe my
loss?
And given I've worked with most R Leica glass from the 15mm to the 800mm (
at the 1972 Munich Olympics.) Now that's a heavy lens when you can only work
with from a monopod. Tripods are forbidden as they take up too much room
when you have 3 or 4 hundred photographers all squeezed into a single photo
position. :-) Now that's a location for group therapy if ever! :-)
cheers,
Dr. ted :-)
>
>
>
> On 10/30/10 10:49 AM, tedgrant@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> And David offered: :-)
>>
>> Subject: [LRflex] In interesting article (for gear-heads only)
>>
>>
>>> An interesting "open letter to camera makers" is on the Luminous
>>> Landscape site...
>>> http://tinyurl.com/39h23bo
>>>
>>> Of interest to gear-heads& techies only. Dr. Ted need not bother
>>> with this one... ;-)<<<<
>> So I thought David is pulling my leg, I'll have a look! :-)
>>
>> He was absolutely correct as always! :-) I should never have even peeked!
>> :-)
>>
>> People who are photographer's need not waste one iota of a nano second
>> with
>> this silliness. Well that is if they are far more interested in taking
>> heart
>> warming wonderful photographs of all things beautiful! :-) This is TECHIE
>> BIGTIME! :-)
>>
>> However? David did give a warning! If one is a gearhead of the first
>> lightening bolt of the new year......... or whatever and wherever
>> gearheads
>> come from? ;-)
>>
>> They have my blessings to look at what the heck these guys are talking
>> about
>> as I didn't get past a fleeting glance of "graphs and words I don't have
>> a
>> clue what the heck they mean!" Let alone helping shoot a neat photograph
>> due to the feelings in your gut and not by numbers or a "letter T" if it
>> has
>> anything to do with anything about better pictures? See I didn't get by
>> the
>> first scary looking things! :-)
>>
>> hey I'm sorry about the ramble but obviously my mental state, more then
>> usual, became de-ranged more so by the squiggly lines and numbers on a
>> green
>> thing whatever it was. :-)
>>
>> Thanks for the warning David, next time I'll absolutely obey it! :-)
>>
>> Me? I'm going out and make a few fun exposures. :-)
>> Have a nice weekend all!
>> cheers,
>> Dr. ted :-)
>>
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