[Leica] Re: put away our wallets / PAM ?

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Yup. I have found just the opposite - that my photography has been
improving with digital. And it has nothing to do with digital per se,
but with the fact that, as I've said before, I can afford to do more
shooting. Shoot more, shoot better.

As to the "spray and pray," that sound precisely what people said about
motor drives. Crappy shooter sprayed and prayed, and not surprisingly
just ended up with larger quantities of mediocre and crappy images. Good
shooters by and large just used the motor drive as a way to not have to
end up with tendonitis of the thumb, and, on those rare occasions when
the image demanded, used the motor for burst shooting.

My initial reaction to what I've been doing with digital is that I've
been shooting more images on each assignment. But then when I could
images, look at the length of time of the shoot, and compared the
digital count to the number of images I would have shot on film, there's
very little difference.

Yes, I am shooting more - I am doing more shooting for my own
entertainment and photographic self-improvement. But I don't think that
I am exposing more images per assignment.



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Slobodan Dimitrov
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 11:40 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: put away our wallets / PAM ?


Sounds like a lament I heard years and years ago as motor drives/winders
became prevalent. 
S. Dimitrov

> From: Jeffery Smith <jefferys@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:14:12 -0600
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: put away our wallets / PAM ?
> 
> My photography appears to have gotten worse with the use of digital. I

> don't know if it is losing control over the camera, shooting too many 
> frames (spray and pray for a good image), or lack of familiarity with 
> the digital camera's features. I am having difficulty getting a 
> Picture-A-Week as well, but that has more to do with just being very 
> busy on the weekends and not having the opportunity to get out. A PAM 
> might be a good idea.
> 
> Jeffery
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