When I first started shooting film some 25 years ago, I encountered a guardian angel. He had a camera store in the Old Chicago neighborhood west of Comiskey Park. The neighborhood was, and still is so far as I know, called Bridgeport. This guy told me that if I ever hoped to be a halfway decent photographer, I had to shoot one roll of film per day. Then he sold me a bunch of darkroom equipment at below his cost, pushed a bunch of film across the counter, and said, "go take pictures." For years, he continued to subsidize my efforts, and I shot at least one roll of film every day. I don't know if I'm a good photographer, but I'm a lot better than I would have been if I had not burned all that film. Paul
Bob Walkden wrote: > > Hi, > > > Shooting a lot of film doesn't make your pictures any better. > > Have to disagree with you there, Shel. :o) Personally speaking, the > more film I shoot, the better I get. Never heard of a world-class > athlete who didn't run a lot of miles (apart from darts players, of > course). Never heard of a world-class photographer who didn't shoot a > lot of film. > > --- > > Bob > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sunday, October 21, 2001, 2:58:32 PM, you wrote: > > > Shooting a lot of film doesn't make your pictures any better. I'd have > > to agree pretty much with Bob Walkden's comments wrt shooting with the > > Leica. > > > It took me a while to get used to the camera - I even used it for a > > while and became so disgusted with it that I stuck it in the cabinet for > > almost six months. Now, like Bob, I use it almost every day and find > > that for street shooting and people pictures it offers a much better > > view than an SLR. I do seem to have one advantage, and that's that I'm > > somewhat able to pre-visualize DOF, although I really don't worry or > > think about it too much. > > > "Juan J. Buhler" wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, J. C. O'Connell wrote: > >> > >> > Any of you all use equipment other than > >> > Pentax at times? > >> > >> Leica M6, with 50 Summicron and Russian 35 and 85 lenses. > >> > >> I cannot seem to get used to the M6. I'm too slow to focus the > >> rangefinder, and sometimes I just forget it's not the MX and think > >> that if what I see is in focus the picture will also be. The other day > >> I spent about one hour taking the last 20 shots of a roll, walking > >> around chinatown in San Francisco. When I finished, I pulled out the > >> MX with K30/2.8 and then K85/1.8 and shot a roll and a half in 30 > >> minutes, in the same two or three blocks I had been walking around > >> with the M6. I guess I have to keep practicing with the Leica, but > >> don't want to give up the MX. > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
