The Leica IIIf bought new in 1953 was like a sports car; my current M4 is more like a SUV, practical rather than elegant.
Did you start with the early Leica IIIs?
I'm just wondering if the move to the M-series was as big an evolution as it seems to me.
Did your photography get better?
Each to their own.
But I work quite the opposite. When a camera works really well for me, I forget it's there.
That means I am only thinking about the photo and operating the camera without any conscious thought about it.
I don't have any emotional relationships with objects, except maybe that I get frustrated if they break.
I know my cameras well enough to work them with little if any thought too. But objects do affect emotions.
For better or worse each camera has it's strengths and it's stereotypes in our worlds and those translate into how I relate to the world and how those around me relate to me.
In a sense picking a camera is like choosing which "friend" you want to spend the day with.
For example choosing an RB is for me a commitment to a more planned or formal "date" with a serious-minded city girl, where grabbing my Holga is more of partying by the lake with the girl from next door "date".
I'm not the only one that gets this either, the "girls" I hang with have a distinct affect on how the people around me act. Think Michelle Obama vs. P!nk. I'd happily spend separate afternoons with either, each afternoon would be a very different experience.
I think all my efforts to convince people that avid photographers aren't kooks just went out the window
We are all perfectly normal. It's 'they' who are bananas.
We are all perfectly normal. It's 'they' who are bananas.
I feel this way about my Rolleiflex. In the beginning, I wasn't sure how I felt about it - did it work well with me, was the twin-lens thing a good idea or a bad idea? But after putting some film through it, and taking it out on 'dates', I got to know it and realized it was probably the best camera for me that I've ever owned (no slight to my large format stuff - they're the friends-with-benefits when I need some spice or want to do something I can't do with the Rollei). But it does just get out of the way and let me take the images I want to take. I would say it does love me back, because I get the best pictures from it.
Is it a coincidence that there doesn't seem to be a single female member of APUG posting to this thread?
Is it a coincidence that there doesn't seem to be a single female member of APUG posting to this thread?
Personally I'd like to hear from some single female members.
A digital camera seems to me to be otherwise, a lifeless drone, robotic and cold. Just my (perhaps strange) thoughts....
You named your cameras and call them by their names? :confused:
A TLR is on my bucket list.
Analog cameras are sexy machines! There's a sensuality to them when cradled in your hands. They're seductive with their burled knobs and finely crafted mechanisms as they whisper, snap and clap while you manipulate their controls. A digital camera seems to me to be otherwise, a lifeless drone, robotic and cold. Just my (perhaps strange) thoughts....
nono,I think you hit the nail on the head.I'll go and hug one right now
Voitlander Vito II is Vinny
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