Camera Romance

[Sirius Glass]

Wow, were you using the Hasselblad Zeiss Tele-Tessar 500mm?

No need to show off, just the 80mm.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Seems impersonal! What does that do for your psyche?

I said it was the first attraction, besides if it happens to a guy it does not matter why. My psyche and other parts were quite pleased with themselves, thank you.

 

[Jim Jones]

I did not want this to be yet another tiring analog vs digital discussion.I just wanted to kno if others also have formed an emotional bond with their camera and if that influences their photographic work?

Of course! How could it not be so for us Leica Users. As the ads said for another product that some people enjoyed shooting with a hundred years ago, "It fits in your hand like the hand of a friend." The Leica never complains with I flirt with the beautiful Inba Ikeda or work with the elegant Graphic View: after 60 years with Leicas, they know where my heart is.

 

[markbarendt]

I did not want this to be yet another tiring analog vs digital discussion.I just wanted to kno if others also have formed an emotional bond with their camera and if that influences their photographic work?

Yes, it does affect my work.

 

[Jaf-Photo]

I did not want this to be yet another tiring analog vs digital discussion.I just wanted to kno if others also have formed an emotional bond with their camera and if that influences their photographic work?

Well, no. I'm not in love with my camera.

But I would defend it if any man tried to lay his dirty hands on it

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

I thought it was a plug for a Nikon 800E...

A skilled and experienced photographer will create beautiful work from either digital or analogue. One is not inferior to the other, just a different means of reaching an end result and both can be, and have, emotional connections to the photographer, and the world he photographs. True dinks, mate, if somebody made off with one or all of my cameras, well, who would not be reduced to a trainwreck? So yes, I have an obvious emotional attachment — to both digital and analogue cameras I own because they have travelled so far and wide with me for so long and produced so many, many photographic works. A big trip through the outback of Australia later will serve to reinforce even more the working and emotional relationship of photographer and tools. There is also that undeniable zing that comes from viewing beautiful transparencies radiant and glowing on the lightbox. Opening files in Lightroom doesn't quite have the same knock-ya-knickers-off zap, but the prints most often do.

 

[benjiboy]

No need to show off, just the 80mm.

Did she say "is that a Hasselblad,or are you just pleased to see me"

 

[RalphLambrecht]

that's nasty

 

[pstake]

Of course! How could it not be so for us Leica Users. As the ads said for another product that some people enjoyed shooting with a hundred years ago, "It fits in your hand like the hand of a friend." The Leica never complains with I flirt with the beautiful Inba Ikeda or work with the elegant Graphic View: after 60 years with Leicas, they know where my heart is.

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?

 

[RalphLambrecht]

I thought it was a plug for a Nikon 800E...

A skilled and experienced photographer will create beautiful work from either digital or analogue. One is not inferior to the other, just a different means of reaching an end result and both can be, and have, emotional connections to the photographer, and the world he photographs. True dinks, mate, if somebody made off with one or all of my cameras, well, who would not be reduced to a trainwreck? So yes, I have an obvious emotional attachment — to both digital and analogue cameras I own because they have travelled so far and wide with me for so long and produced so many, many photographic works. A big trip through the outback of Australia later will serve to reinforce even more the working and emotional relationship of photographer and tools. There is also that undeniable zing that comes from viewing beautiful transparencies radiant and glowing on the lightbox. Opening files in Lightroom doesn't quite have the same knock-ya-knickers-off zap, but the prints most often do.

why is it that alwaysthe folk with the most expensive gear insist that it is the guy behind the camera and not the camera who makes the difference

 

[benjiboy]

why is it that alwaysthe folk with the most expensive gear insist that it is the guy behind the camera and not the camera who makes the difference

Because when they have the most expensive gear they find out that their work is no better and you can't buy creativity.

 

[Jaf-Photo]

Because when they have the most expensive gear they find out that their work is no better and you can't buy creativity.

Exactly! They are in the best position to know.

Although, I've had pros who use Hasselblad and Leica sneer at my Mamiyas and Minoltas.

The main difference is price though. Hasselblads and Leicas are five times more expensive. But they aren't five times better.

Japanese mechanics and optics are about as good as the classic Europeans. Sonetimes a little behind, sometimes a little better.

 

[Tony Egan]

I did not want this to be yet another tiring analog vs digital discussion.I just wanted to kno if others also have formed an emotional bond with their camera and if that influences their photographic work?

I'm in the heavy dating period with my Hasselblad 500C/M acquired last year. It's winning my heart. Since the kids left home I have been fortunate enough to have some spending money to woo all kinds of exotics; Mamiya 7, Leica M6, Linhof 4x5, ShenHao 5x7, Deardorff 8x10, xPan. I didn't want to die wondering! Anyway, the one I want to leave the house with most is now the Hasselblad. Who can explain romance? It just feels right for now...but will the love fade... is that the sultry whisper of disreputable Holga I hear calling?

 

[irvd2x]

It is said that you"like because" and you"love in spite of"

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[RalphLambrecht]

my photography got better with Hasselblad;maybe,because at tthat point I couldn't blame the equipment anymore and there was noother way than to work harder.

 

[irvd2x]

It is said that you"like because" and you"love in spite of"

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Oops..slippery phone..where was I..
Well,I like my Linhof Technorama,."Nora"I call her, I like her because she sees things the way I do! She is willing to look at things from my perspective,stays quiet when I'm concentrating,and..well..there are certain moments together where it "clicks".She likes it when we go places..she loves the great outdoors!.Sure,I have hand held others...Niky,Mamy,Hazel..and others...but Nora..though she has a wide body,and only one eye,well,she has shown me so much..helped me to see the bigger picture. I guess I've put her up on a pedestal.

She's happy...I got her her own bag. I have to confess I left her once...for a "new" face..I guess I wanted to keep up with the young crowd..and Nora started looking old fashioned..but..I missed her,dammit..no one saw things the way she did.So..I came crawling back.We are now together again..growing old together.

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[BrianShaw]

You named your cameras and call them by their names? :confused:

 

[markbarendt]

You named your cameras and call them by their names? :confused:

So do I.

Marilyn is my RB kit.

Helga, my Holga.

Nikki...

You don't? :eek:

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

my photography got better with Hasselblad;maybe,because at tthat point I couldn't blame the equipment anymore and there was noother way than to work harder.

This is true also for me. It was actually a bit of a rude awakening for me to realize that it really is up to me to make better photographs; my skill, my knowledge, my practice, my 'everything'.

The Hasselblad feels sort of like an extension of my mind, where I'm so used to using it that all adjustments are fairly automatic. I really LOVE the camera and how it handles, how it fits in my hands, how big and bright the viewing screen is, and so on. But I feel like I've used it so much that the camera gets out of the way when I photograph, to the point that I don't think at all about the camera - I think only of what's in front of the camera, and that's freedom to me, freedom to be fully immersed in the subject matter, free of distracting noise.

 

[benjiboy]

I like my cameras , but I don't give them pet names, or want to have sex with them any more than I do my carpentry tools which I also like, I don't know what planet some people live on.

 

[markbarendt]

This is true also for me. It was actually a bit of a rude awakening for me to realize that it really is up to me to make better photographs; my skill, my knowledge, my practice, my 'everything'.

The Hasselblad feels sort of like an extension of my mind, where I'm so used to using it that all adjustments are fairly automatic. I really LOVE the camera and how it handles, how it fits in my hands, how big and bright the viewing screen is, and so on. But I feel like I've used it so much that the camera gets out of the way when I photograph, to the point that I don't think at all about the camera - I think only of what's in front of the camera, and that's freedom to me, freedom to be fully immersed in the subject matter, free of distracting noise.

For me this realization came in several steps, one of the most stark was getting my Holga. When I found that a "toy" could turn out fun images as often as my "tools", I had to wonder "why?"

 

[markbarendt]

I like my cameras , but I don't give them pet names, or want to have sex with them any more than I do my carpentry tools which I also like, I don't know what planet some people live on.

Oh, lighten up Ben.

My wife jokingly calls them my "square-headed-girlfriends". I jokingly call them by name.

There is something visceral though about what each can do, and how each feels.

 

[Jaf-Photo]

Oh, lighten up Ben.

My wife jokingly calls them my "square-headed-girlfriends". I jokingly call them by name.

There is something visceral though about what each can do, and how each feels.

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.

 

[ROL]

How surprising (not) that this topic garners 77 replies and counting in 24 hours on a photography forum .

Ralph, the real question is how does your camera feel about you. Now that's a romance!

 

[Eric Rose]

Your Blad might be the camera you want to take out, but which camera do you want to stay home with and get dirty