[LRflex] Re: reaching for more...
- From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 20:28:36 -0800
On Mar 5, 2010, at 8:06 PM, Richard Ward wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> "you must know your equipment, then trust it, then it will be right...."
>
> Excellent advice.
>
> I haven't been mulling abandonment of slr shooting so much as pondering a way
> to add a rangefinder & preferable digital to my equipment acquisition plans.
> There is just something glorious in the M8/M9 images I see. It's a bit like
> that mythic 'syren' call pulling sailors to their doom on the island's rocky
> shoals. Even the Epson RD1 with it's 'primitive' innards seems quite
> intriguing to ponder.
>
> With my mobility limitations and the deep loss in load carrying abilities
> I've experienced - I'm seeing a nice upside to carrying a 'little'
> rangefinder around the neck with a couple a tiny primes nestled in my
> pockets. I'm a big dude who stands near six feet tall and solidly over 200
> pounds, but while the shell is big the frame inside has become quite weak.
hi Richard,
what's going on medically ?
I'm an MD, in fact I worked at Butterworth H. in Grand Rapids for a while...
you can write off list to me, if you prefer, or not at all, as you wish.
Most don't think of M's for scenics etc...but why not... ?
Steve
>
> I fondly recall carrying around my neck one body loaded with color, one with
> black and white, a lens filled camera bag dangling off one shoulder, and my
> tripod nestled atop the other, all afternoon with hardly a problem. Just the
> satisfaction of some honorable aches well earned and easily shooed away with
> a motrin or two :-).
>
> Now 2 Ultram tablets 3 times a day don't begin to keep the aches away! :-)
>
> Sometimes I feel like I'm 42 going on 82!
>
> Sincerely,
> Richard In Michigan
>
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> From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Fri, March 5, 2010 9:39:43 PM
> Subject: [LRflex] Re: reaching for more...
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Richard Ward wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>> I think this is an incredibly adorable image. There is this dichotomy
>> between the intimate 'person in the rain' foreground and the gorgeous
>> 'landscape in fog' background that puts a smile on my face and makes me wish
>> I was standing unter that umbrella myself. These images you've been posting
>> lately have been making me reconsider my preference for SLR shooting! I've
>> had successes using some fixed lens rangefinders (A Balda and a Minolta),
>> but the framing and the focusing always felt like I was having to 'trust' it
>> was right unlike 'seeing' it was right with a SLR.
>
> you must know your equipment, then trust it, then it will be right....
>
> thank you very much Richard...
>
> Steve
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