rainer_viertlb_ck Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 i hope i dont destroy your time just wanting to tell a good afternoon i lived yesterday with my leica -m and this is everything else than a technical tread.... before telling you more i want to explain that i am normally working with lf equipment shooting prof. architecture and design and not - even i would like to do sometimes so- as journalist. i am the ( proud ) owner of a m7 and m4p...which normally i use "private".... so i listened that the dalai lama will come on 1.of june for two events to munich, one small one at the end of a medical congress about east and west medicine and one big event in the olympic stadion. so i did - what i normally dont do - i went there using my journalist passport and went to the press photographers to shoot just for fun some pictures and to listen what this man had to tell us. in the first event there was not much possibility to shoot, and it was forbidden meanwhile his holyness was speaking. anyway everybody did and i believe noone included me could have good pictures, but i was feeling at least comfortabel that my leica was not to listen, and the nikons around made everytime real loud noise.../ i was astonished that not all have been digital but they were not. in the afternoon i went to the olympic stadion and- i dont know how- i reached a seat directly in the first row 10mtr away from the dalai lama. just two or three other photographers have had seats like this, the crwod of 40 50 or 60 press photographers stood far away of these seats. of us three or four i believe that noone had real permission to stay there were we have been. so good i enjoyed the words to listen and i started to shoot with asa1600 color neg film and my 135/4 optic and with asa400 neg and scala bw film with my 1,4/74 and 2/35 optic and i really enjoyed how smooth noiseless and dezent my cam was,- more when i saw the big digital or analog monsters, the photograph beside me have used. some canon with a 2/250 mm monster and behind me one digital nikon with a similar optic monster. and the photographers were really shamed to use their giants for noise and optical presence, me i felt so comfortabel with my small leica -...i really had fun to use this little and fine camery system without disturbing anyone and without stress, so i could watch and listen and shoot....in the end when the photographers were official allowed to come closed to the stage, continuing beeing always in front of all others, cause my equipement was so little that i could be very agile and fast in this picture-hungry crowd of photographers...... well i revelate now the films, the first roll seems to be good, maybe i will post a picture of this event....was a really nice day for me as photographer who was in some way "playing" to be a photographer of another arm of this profession, using such an old fashioned equipment as for me seems to be the leica m, compared with the other "modern" and prof. systems. hope i didnot bother you.... greatings from munich in germany<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h._p. Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 A long and rambling post - you really need to put paragraph breaks in... I like the photo though :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristian dowling Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Thanks for sharing your experience. Sounds enlightening. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerry_szarek Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Love the photo, you need to start capitalizing the first word of every sentence because it's very hard to read. Thanks for the great photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christoph_frick1 Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Thank you for sharing your photo and your experience! When I started using a Leica M, I was also amazed how relaxed it is compared to using noisy SLRs. Even after about 25years using SLRs and only one year using a Leica M I feel much more relaxed with the Leica M. [btw: this forum helps me a lot with the learning curve which *is* involved, thanks everybody!] I'm looking forward to more photos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliver_s. Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Nice picture, and a typical Leica use story!<p>To add some context, Christian Ude is the social democratic, Protestant mayor of the capital of ultra-conservative, Catholic Bavaria, Munich. His party usually gets approx. 50 per cent of all votes in communal elections.<p>On another topic: Rainer, your equipment list contains a Seitz Roundshot. We'd love to see some pictures you took with it! (I volunteer to document its use for the Photo.net community as I currently live in Munich.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roberto_watson_garc_a Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 my eyeballs ache, but I finaly could read all of your experience, thanks for share it, yes enligthed is the word fo me too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_baker___heidelberg_ Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 I heard a joke once... Someone who speaks two languages is Bilingual. Someone who speaks three languages is Trilingual. Someone who speaks one language is American. I wish after six years in Germany I could speak German as well as Rainer pens English. Cut him some slack you guys. Great shot and no doubt a great experience. Makes me want to head to Munich more than I do already... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Someone who speaks one language is American Or English. Interesting read,nice photo. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainer_viertlb_ck Posted June 4, 2003 Author Share Posted June 4, 2003 Many thanks for your lovely comments to my shot. About my English,- yes its true its not only that i dont speak too good,- also it happens that i started to be too lazy to write little and big letters, which makes my writing shurely more horrible to You as it is, if i am trying my best. Well i will try to do better in future. I loaded now one folder of Dalai Lama pictures in my gallery space here in photo.net. If everything runs good You will find the pics under : http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=206355 Oliver had the wish to see some roundshots of me, i loaded some up under : http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=310505 Sometimes it seems that not all pics appear, to click on the preview, which is not loaded automatically, seems to help than. Can anybody tell me how i can delete pictures in my folder? I couldnt find out this. Thanks for Your comments, have a good time, wherever You are in the world Rainer Munich - Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainer_viertlb_ck Posted June 4, 2003 Author Share Posted June 4, 2003 Sorry : The roundshots You can see much better under the presentation now: http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?presentation_id=206376 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeter Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 hey harvey, maybe you can clue me in to how to put those paragraph breaks in. i can type as many spaces or "enter" spaces as i want and when the type goes to the second screen, they all disappear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h._p. Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Well, Rainer managed it :-) Have you got the "Plain Text" option showing underneath the text entry box? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland_schmid Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Hello Rainer <br> Nice photograph. I had a similar luck two years ago when I could make a feature on the visit of the Dalai Lama in Basel for the lokal newspaper. <br>With Leica M6 and 1.4/35mm Asph.<br><br> <center><img src="http://www.photo.net/bboard/uploaded-file?bboard_upload_id=13064984"</center><br><br><center><i>H.H the Dalai Lama drinking a cup of butter milk in the city hall of Basel, Switzerland 2001</i></center><br> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Can't be a bad bloke, he likes a cuppa. Laughts a lot. Wonder what he's laughting at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeter Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 harvey, yes. plain text it is. anything else? (this second line was separated by two enter strokes when i typed it. the second sentence above was separated from the first by a bunch of spaces.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeter Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 well, the paragraph worked that time, but all the extra spaces still disappear. i guess that is part of the "plain text"?? please don't make me use capitals... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeter Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 paragraphs it is, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob soltis Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 Rainer, what a good day indeed! thanks for sharing the great photo and wonderful story. best, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cameron_sawyer Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 A nice story. Leica M's are far from perfect, sometimes irritatingly so, but in one area at least they really excel -- the near-silence of their shutters. In some situations this is really key. Rainer: auf Englisch, "dezent" heisst "discreet". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_byrd1 Posted June 5, 2003 Share Posted June 5, 2003 I know the feeling you talk about. Last year, I went to my son's school for a student-presented variety show. The parents around me were booming away with the heavy artillery: massive autofocused and stabilized zoom lenses, motor drives, chrome, chrome, chrome, big flashguns, and some digital stuff. I felt free and--I confess--smug with my M3 and one lens, inconspicuously and unobtrusively getting sharp shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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