Leitz Loc: Solms

:?: What Avatar :?: And if Mr. Barnack knew how much I enjoy the fruits of his labour, he'd be smiling! :)

WereWolf1967 Loc: Knoxville, TN

Basically, The name, LEITZ

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

I'm and a dual owner myself and I put the DX Canon T2i kit zoom in full auto just because it's my backup outfit.
When I have the FX Nikon D600 set up for something special and I need a shot Now, I can shoot now with the Canon.
And yes I find it difficult sometimes in Manual to beat Auto. But the Nikon in full auto takes it.
My point is, your 2 cameras have a mild separation in technology where mine have quite a bit more, you may really want to consider having a Primary and a Backup if you can swing it.
I really enjoy it.
Craig

Leitz Loc: Solms

Leitz and Leica happen to be my favourite optics (optiks?)

WereWolf1967 Loc: Knoxville, TN

Are you a user/collector?

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Great choices. I use Leica binoculars and rifle scopes and have had both rangefinder Leicas as well as SLR Leicas. The quality of all was just superb.

Dennis

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

Dennis, careful, don't bite that puppy off!! :lol: :lol:

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

I have two Leica theodolites, do I get any brownie points for those?! :lol: :lol:
SS

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Believe me, I could never compete with you. With my tongue firmly in my cheek it never even comes close to my teeth. It is just my way of joking and hopefully doesn't offend. I am also a Canon user from time to time and think they are excellent and well built cameras. Nikon is just better.

Have a great day,

Dennis

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Darn it. Now I am going to have to look up theodolites. GRRR.

Dennis

marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

It's just verification that over-thinking photography and insisting on total control, instead of concentrating more on composition, doesn't always mean a better end result. Your sister-in-law has revealed this. Setting aside ego and letting the camera show you how it's done isn't so hard especially when the result makes you happy and you're visually satisfied completely.

My line of work requires me to use aperture priority and a specific aperture so I'm cranking the ISO around regularly but I know my eyes vary in accuracy from day to day and I trust my auto-focus more than I trust my eyes. It's a precise robot and I'm not. Auto focus doesn't let me down. I also trust the auto-exposure with matrix metering of 1200 points examined in the frame because I know my eyes see exposure differently every day. I look back at edited photos I've done and see differences from week to week and day to day. Auto exposure doesn't let me down either. It's a precise robot and I'm not.

I have the ability to take total control in manual mode, and had to in the days of film cameras because there was no auto anything. I just know that technology is around to help and not hinder so I take advantage of the benefits and spend my efforts mostly on composition. I don't type with a manual typewriter anymore then remove mistakes with a bottle of White Out, so why should I use all manual on my cameras? I don't.

Some people use "shooting full manual" as a guise to seem more knowledgeable, artistic, and competent but then are angry when someone with several decades less experience uses a 5-shot auto-bracketed set of frames created in semi-auto aperture mode, and puts them through Photomatix software to create an eye-popping realistic result that blows away anything they've ever shot in their lives. They want the shooter thrown out of photo competitions to make technologically-advanced methodology go away but it's not going to.

One either keeps up with technological advances while growing and improving, or voluntarily languishes in stagnation with a stove-top coffee pot, a dial phone, a B&W tube TV, a 1974 AMC Ambassador with crank windows, and a manual film camera - or operating a digital camera in manual mode while complaining that they had to pay for technology they don't use.

There... I've stoked the fire, now let's see where the first flames pop out of.

Leitz Loc: Solms

I use every lens I own, either with film SLRs or rangefinders, or a DSLR. I shoot just enough film to keep those cameras limbered up.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Two different cameras.
Two different people.
Two different results.


:thumbup: :hunf:

WereWolf1967 Loc: Knoxville, TN

Do you still have any Leica cameras/lenses?

WereWolf1967 Loc: Knoxville, TN

Same here.