really N* to Leica => Re: [Leica] Is the Leica an endangered species?

["Bryan Willman" <bryanwi@seanet.com>]

Dave,

I use both Canon EOS (star wars
things like your Nikons) and M6s
(though never at the same time.)

If you give yourself a couple of days
to practice loading, shooting, etc,
you'll almost certainly be right at home
with M cameras.

I observe that when I overcome my
fear and actually shoot, people notice
the M6 much less, jump/hop/skitter away
vastly less, and are MUCH more likely
to *IGNORE* it even after they've noticed
it.  Even if I'm using flash.  Even if they
are singing or playing music.

I can speculate on lots of reasons
why this might be, but I don't know,
I just like the results.

Oh, and a RapidWinder is very useful.

bmw

P.S.    There was a thread going for
        a while called "best practices"
        that had some good stuff in it
        about using these cameras.
        (I'm biased, I started the thread.)

- -----Original Message-----
From: Dave Fonda <fonphoto@snip.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Is the Leica an endangered species?


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I must be able to relate closely with my subject, to get them to open up =
and
be relaxed around me.  This can take days or even weeks under the best of
circumstances.  Then stick a machine like that between us?  Sorry, it=B9s=
 hard
enough just being from the 1st world, to say nothing of throwing that lev=
el
of =8Ctechnology=8C in to the mix as well.


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