W/No words LA shots

I recently went to Los Angeles to visit an old friend and his family. While

there I took some shots of him and his kids. Nothing staged, I just picked up my

camera at moments when I saw something that looked promising. Now, these are

just snaps but they are high quality snaps, and it occured to me that I could

not have achieved these with any other camera on the market. My M7, with it's AE

and 50 pre asph summilux and 28 summicron is the best point and shoot camera

ever made. I didn't even use exposure lock- just trusted the meter and snapped away.

Now my friends have some lovely shots of their kids and hopefully they will

forget that my entire visit consisted of me walking around all day in my

underwear and eating all their food!

Seb.<div></div>

hi seb,

nice shots! what b+w film did you use and what iso was it?

thanks and cheers, chris

I don't understand the statement: "I could not have achieved these with any other camera on the market."

You took the photos, regardless of what you used. Praising your gear to that degree is just as stupid as blaming it for "bad" photos.

Keith

Nice shots. I can't afford the M7 but I had the R3A and I enjoyed using the camera in AE too.

Did you buy any leica gear in LA?

I used Tri-x film

Keith - I was trying to put accross the fact that having fantastic quality lenses in a small and therefore unobtrusive package with a whisper-quiet shutter enabaled me to get some lovely spur-of-the-moment shots in a way that a large, modern SLR, in my case, probably could not.

Regards Seb<div></div>

Call me crazy, but that sounds more like Leica advertising than reality. Face it: You took pictures that you think are good. Quit giving credit to your gear and start giving it to yourself. Yes, slightly different timing ends up giving rangfinder shots something subtley different than SLR shots, but your shots are not what I would call spur of the moment shots before using other words to describe them. They look like posed portraiture, not candids. I'm not saying that's good or bad. It's just how I see them.

Also, who says that SLRs have to be large and modern?

Ok,

Maybe it was a slight case of Leica evangelism. But I still think that a quiet shutter, small, unobstrusive body and great quality fast lenses make for a pretty unbeatable candid portrait combo.

Seb