Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OK, that's my story - in the very beginnings of my serious picture-taking I had a Canon AE w 50/1.8, and although the colour pictures it produced were acceptable, I just wasn't happy about the bw stuff it produced - and my photog friends could easily make remarks on my work. Then I got an old Nikon F w 50/2 instead, and all of a sudden I had decent photos! Martin >There is a flip side to this. Take someone starting out with a good eye and >mediocre equipment and give them first rate glass and please step out of the >way. When I was teaching a B&W class I loaned an SL/50Cron to one of my >students whose camera had died. What he turned in for his final project was >simply stunning. It wasn't just that the images were sharper, it was that >he seemed to meld with the equipment and his vision expanded. > >So, yes a very talented photographer can make most junk create wonderful >images, and great gear won't turn average eyes into Abel, but in the middle >group of talented people great gear can expand the vision especially if that >gear fits the working style of the photographer. > >more pfennigs into the fire > >Don >dorysrus@mindspring.com >