After i bought a second hand Leica M7 for taking on vacation (the hasselblad 500 with 3 lenses wasn't that easy to carry around in the mountains...) I decided to start shooting in theatres again what I had been doing in the past. The director told me for some years after I stopped that the new ages with the digital wasn't what it was in the past. But was this the old sentiment, going back to the old days?
I heard that the leica was the ultimate quality blabla.. The best way to find out is to test it yourself. So I did. Prices are still high, but they keep at that level, so buying one, and selling next year wasn't that a big risk. So I did and bought a M7 with a 35 F2 and a 90 F2.
I used tri-x 400 and delta 3200 film. Tri-x at 1600 iso and the delta at 3200 iso for the technicians under the readers.
Yes, I know the 1.4 lenses would have been better but the price increase between the 2 and the 1.4 was to big for me...
So I started using this combination. As you may know, light is terrible in theatres with a lot of reds. But i only shoot black/white so I don't mind.
The rangefinder does the job and when you get used to the manual focusing after 10 rolls of film it gets a joy to play with.
Taking the right moment is what I found out that worked for me with this camera. In the past I used an automatic body, but often was still to slow. An negative point is that you have to work hard, to get the right point focused when working manually.
What has all this to do with ethics and philosophy you might ask me?
What happend after I scanned the images and send them to the digital photographer who did the color work (yes we can work together as a team
) is that I got a reply back from him saying:
"I cannot express myself in words what took me when I looked at the pictures.
Is it the black/white, the contrast, or that it looks like photos coming out of a archive. I like it!"
A second respons was from a mother asking if the b/w pictures would also be on the DVD because she saw some, and was attracted to it.
If people see the difference themselves and communicate with me about those pictures this makes me happy because it's the result of my hobby what they (and I) like.
Willie Jan.
I heard that the leica was the ultimate quality blabla.. The best way to find out is to test it yourself. So I did. Prices are still high, but they keep at that level, so buying one, and selling next year wasn't that a big risk. So I did and bought a M7 with a 35 F2 and a 90 F2.
I used tri-x 400 and delta 3200 film. Tri-x at 1600 iso and the delta at 3200 iso for the technicians under the readers.
Yes, I know the 1.4 lenses would have been better but the price increase between the 2 and the 1.4 was to big for me...
So I started using this combination. As you may know, light is terrible in theatres with a lot of reds. But i only shoot black/white so I don't mind.
The rangefinder does the job and when you get used to the manual focusing after 10 rolls of film it gets a joy to play with.
Taking the right moment is what I found out that worked for me with this camera. In the past I used an automatic body, but often was still to slow. An negative point is that you have to work hard, to get the right point focused when working manually.
What has all this to do with ethics and philosophy you might ask me?
What happend after I scanned the images and send them to the digital photographer who did the color work (yes we can work together as a team
) is that I got a reply back from him saying:"I cannot express myself in words what took me when I looked at the pictures.
Is it the black/white, the contrast, or that it looks like photos coming out of a archive. I like it!"
A second respons was from a mother asking if the b/w pictures would also be on the DVD because she saw some, and was attracted to it.
If people see the difference themselves and communicate with me about those pictures this makes me happy because it's the result of my hobby what they (and I) like.
Willie Jan.
, but half the price of the actual ebay price. So I'm not a fan, it works for me or it doesn't. I use hassy 500 and toyofield 4x5 also.
