deecy Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 http://www.auspiciousdragon.net/Photography/Articles/photoarticle%23001.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mendonphoto Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 <a href="http://www.auspiciousdragon.net/Photography/Articles/photoarticle%23001.html">The link</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart d Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Now I remember why I left Scotland. Not much to do in the winter but huddle round the computer monitor in an ill-fated attempt to fend off Seasonally Affected Disorder. A nasty side-effect is the degree of verbosity in one's writing style, as seen in the link above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_dermer Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Took a week to shoot. Wonder how much time was put into the writing?? By the way, Stuart, remember that Scottish actor from "Naked" who you could not at all understand until you rewound the film a lot of times? That guy has been getting a lot of roles recently in film - and you still can't tell what the heck he is saying!! But, hey, he always does a great job in his films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex_Es Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Thomas, Thank you for sharing this article with us. It is informative and witty. I learned a great deal about digital photography (very good to compare the A4 with the M6) and about Hong Kong. I also learned a few new things about Leica shooting. A very good piece of writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wai_leong_lee Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Perhaps there was no need for you to buy and process film in Hong Kong. Modern X-ray machines do not harm film, esp. 400 speed films like Tri-X. You may have your own experiences, no doubt, but I've had my film (incl. Provia 400, Portra 160, etc.) scanned by numerous X-ray machines in my travels without problems, if they are film-safe machines. They were not fogged at all. But in any case, buying film in HK is not a bad idea, it's cheaper than buying it in UK. Thus, I do not agree that a daily trip to the photo processor is necessary, and this disadvantage of film photography is created unnecessarily. But anyway, thanks for the tip about John Leung. Do I detect a slight negative bias towards film photography? "Who wants to add 40 folls of film to already heavy hand luggage." You could also say "Who wants to add a battery charger + spare batteries + laptop/portable hard drive to already heavy hand luggage?" We all want to travel light, but you do it because you have to do it, and 40 rolls of film isn't as heavy as a laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuart d Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Hmmm - varied opinions, as always. To me, a Mark Twain quotation came to mind: "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead." So, Thomas, as you started this thread, please enlighten us why it caused you to post 'WOW!' on two separate fora. I'm genuinely curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rj Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Thanks for the recommendation on the Heard Street processing house Thomas. I'll look out for it. Sojourning in Central for the meantime, I enjoyed your article (one proviso being that it has a somewhat sanitised and digitally antiseptic flavour). The article seems to mark out the limitations of digital capture media (looking at the images and the words to buttress the images) rather than express its utility in the making of images. Maybe it strikes me as hampering your expression of image making with a preoccupation over technical functions of the camera. It looks like you've enjoyed Hong Kong nonetheless. Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunom Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 I really do appreciate his in-depth knowledge of Leica metering and batteries! I know it's very late here in London but did I miss something? Alex did you really find it informative and witty? The nonesense he wrote about the above just casts a very great doubt in my mind about whether or not the rest of what is written is also nonesense? Regards Bruno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael s. Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Some are commenting as though Thomas Deecy wrote the linked article. I don't believe that's the case. Have I missed something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunom Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Michael Not at all, it was written by a Colin Jago,found if the link at the bottom of the article is followed. Regards Bruno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael s. Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Not you, Bruno. A couple others have phrased their posts as if they were speaking to the author of the piece. Not a big deal, perhaps, but I just wanted to clear up any confusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunom Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Michael Thanks - I understood you didn't mean me, my "not at all" was meant to signify that you had not missed anything! Regards Bruno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent_tolley2 Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 I enjoyed reading this.<BR><BR> Peter - I read that. Thanks. 2200+Imageprint. Hey you said that at the start dint you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank granovski Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 I read the "WOW" article - I must be ironically challenged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donald_macklin Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 My apologies Frank G.I confused you as another,more notorious Frank P.Who has previously perverted the purity of this forum,and is now banned.Welcome to the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
del_gray Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Frank P. was banned? Really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abufletcher Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 "As a fair-haired Westerner I was never going to blend in, so stealth photography was not an option." One more reason why I never bothered to attempt "candid" photos during my life abroad. A red-headed, red-skinned, foreigner with black box in front of his face always going to be pretty dang obvious so you might as well go with the other meaning of candid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank granovski Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Who's Frank P.? We're not related. I've been here snooping about for a number of years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Really nice well written with good photos.Some very important remarks and observations about using digital and film..Seems like one ought to use one type at a time.The logistics of all the "stuff" you need with digital is where I get lost..Lap-tops, Scandiscs, batteries and chargers.X-Rays are a problem.I have processed film on the go.Prints later back home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brunom Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Jason I hate to labour this but how can you say it was well written? The author,Colin Jago [ follow the link at the page bottom} states that the M6's batteries are there just to light up the two little viewfinder lights, and if the battery fails all you lose is those two little lights! He goes on to say the MP has no battery at all. After that how could you rely on any thing else being accurate? let alone well written! Regards Bruno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deecy Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 You know, some of the posters on this forum are amazing. All I did was post a single word, "wow", and a link. This is the result: 1. I wrote the article. 2. I didn't write the article. 3. I wrote the article and I don't know what I'm talking about. 4. I wrote the article and I do know what I'm talking about. 5. I've been to Singapore. 6. Leicas are better than Minolta A2s. 7. Film is better than digital. 8. Leicas are better than anything. 9. I shouldn't have said "wow" because it implied that I think the writer is; correct, is incorrect, has a lot of chutspa, has his nerve actually speaking about Leica and a digital piece of s**t in the same page let alone in the same sentence, 10. What does "wow" mean? (if we find out, maybe we can pin Thomas down and make him squirm with our greater knowledge, taste, judgement, photographic acumen, vocabulary) Maybe, Heaven forfend, Thomas is (gulp!) trolling! Or flaming something or somebody. What could it be??) Bottom line? The guy who wrote that piece telling of his experiences in comparing a digital camera with a Leica can go straight to Hell for his disrespect to -- (kneel, please) Leica cameras. And if Thomas is thinking impure thoughts along these same lines, he can join him. (Sorry guys and gals - no offense intended. This was just too delicious to pass up!) Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basil brush Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 I wonder what it actually feels like to be that anal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_elek Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Thomas, I enjoyed your summation of the experience of posting a link. Much more entertaining than anything else posted today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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