seb v. Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 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> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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christian amann Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 hi seb, nice shots! what b+w film did you use and what iso was it? thanks and cheers, chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
35mmdelux Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 Hi Seb, I usually don't exp lock but on occasion I add +1 stop. Nice pix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_lubow Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrisonp Posted May 9, 2007 Share Posted May 9, 2007 Did you just call a Leica a point and shoot................? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoebox Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seb v. Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 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> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_lubow Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seb v. Posted May 10, 2007 Author Share Posted May 10, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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