The hunt for perfection (Page 2): Bought camera to take pictures not a drawing board, no offense!

patman1 Loc: Pataskala, Ohio

ELNikkor wrote:

With best regards to Leica, in someone else's hands but yours, they may not make remarkable images at all. (Can they do in-camera color-sketch? My Nikons can, and I KNOW it's true.. : )

Bought camera to take pictures not a drawing board, no offense!

patman1 Loc: Pataskala, Ohio

[quote=BebuLamar]How accurate is
They are spot on, even on my IIIf and my M3, it is very, very rare I ever take more than 1 shot of a given image.

patman1 Loc: Pataskala, Ohio

speters wrote:

I'm with you, I always enjoyed them, whenever I was using one!
But these days, the prices for them are just totally out of line, no camera is worth that kind a dough!

I agree prices to day outrageous. My last Leica purchase my M8 and have no intention of buying another. If I find a good deal on a couple of Leica lenses I may go a little crazy but no intention in doing so.

patman1 Loc: Pataskala, Ohio

Fredrick wrote:

Cameras and lenses are nothing more than tools. Sounds like you’ve bought a number of expensive Leica cameras and lenses over 40 years. And you’ve probably spent a lot more money than most people over a similar timeframe. And you can take good photos. Good for you.

So what’s your point? Or is that it?

Just a bit annoyed with the camera manufacturers that are convincing photographers to keep buying a better product when their isn't any. A camera produces an image that's all, it's the photographer that finds that image and captures it for posterity, be it film or digital.

patman1 Loc: Pataskala, Ohio

[quote=tomcat]I hope that during the next 20 years that you plan to live that you will learn to spell and use some proper grammar-lol. I wish that Santa would bring you the English books for grammar and a spelling book. Merry Christmas,[/quo

My spelling is actually very good, my typing sucks!

tomcat

patman1 wrote:

I agree prices to day outrageous. My last Leica purchase my M8 and have no intention of buying another. If I find a good deal on a couple of Leica lenses I may go a little crazy but no intention in doing so.

Thanks for sharing your posts. A lot of us could be envious to have a fine precision machine to take photographs. I would be too if I did not shoot mostly high school sports. But, I need the incredible low light imagery ( aka, very high ISO and the need for low noise) made possible by my Nikon D3s, so the Leica wouldn't offer much advantage to me right now. But if I get to retire a 2nd time (sans grandkids' photos), I would love to have one for travel. However, that may be a pipe dream for me because the youngest one is just entering kindergarten, so when he has graduated from HS, I will be 83 years old---and at that point, Apple may have some really cool AI cameras and lenses. Thanks for the chance to ramble..... Merry Christmas!

patman1 Loc: Pataskala, Ohio

martinfisherphoto wrote:

I guess you have a portfolio that will blow me away??? I'll wait up while you get it together.

I moved recently and all, or most of my photos on back up drive. I am trying to get it together but I am sort of incapacitated rt now. My photos are nothing special just sort of a journal of where I have lived, but they are all quality images, sharp, and all graphically well laid out. You will be the first to see them as soon as I get them up, I hope they will please you.

tomcat

[quote=patman1][quote=tomcat]I hope that during the next 20 years that you plan to live that you will learn to spell and use some proper grammar-lol. I wish that Santa would bring you the English books for grammar and a spelling book. Merry Christmas,[/quo

My spelling is actually very good, my typing sucks![/quote]

Proofread my man, proofread !! I know you aren't out taking that many pictures.........lol to you..... My typing is getting worse over the past couple of years because I am thinking of the letters in the words faster than my fingers can type them and I make a lot of bumbling mistakes, but the anal retentiveness in me won't let me send out messages without them being as perfect as I know how....

BebuLamar

[quote=patman1]

BebuLamar wrote:

How accurate is
They are spot on, even on my IIIf and my M3, it is very, very rare I ever take more than 1 shot of a given image.

What do you mean spot on? You mean there is no error at all? Not even 1/10 stop? I am not nit picking but you're talking about perfection.

patman1 Loc: Pataskala, Ohio

I hope I didn't sound like a typical Leica effectionado, I'm not just telling my experience in the world of photography. I have had an interest in photography since 1964 when I got my first Leica as a down payment on a car I was selling. The buyer, was the Prince of Thailand who was visiting USA with a friend of mine going to school in Manchester. He gave me a complete camera case with camera, lenses, flash and all other items he had for camera. Till that point I never heard of a leica. Several images I shot in the first couple of weeks were published in some camera mags and my nude, 1st and only one I ever took was deemed a masterpiece by Leitz, posted here, taken over 50 years ago. Those are my experiences that led me to Leica. I also have Kodak DCS pro14N, I bought for telephoto use and a Nikon D200, Nikon sucked Kodak great!

patman1 Loc: Pataskala, Ohio

BebuLamar wrote:

What do you mean spot on? You mean there is no error at all? Not even 1/10 stop? I am not nit picking but you're talking about perfection.

In my eyes yes, my images were perfect, the Leica meters worked exceptionally well
II think you guys are getting carried away, this isn't a competition just trying to say that the camera industry getting carried away, you can do so much with a lot kess.

BebuLamar

patman1 wrote:

In my eyes yes, my images were perfect, the Leica meters worked exceptionally well
II think you guys are getting carried away, this isn't a competition just trying to say that the camera industry getting carried away, you can do so much with a lot kess.

You can do a lot with a lot less. But no hunt for perfection jut excellent. When you said perfection it has to be very near perfect which it's far from it.

Haydon

patman1 wrote:

In my eyes yes, my images were perfect.

How about sharing some images. I'm now very curious of your work.

patman1 Loc: Pataskala, Ohio

Haydon wrote:

How about sharing some images. I'm now very curious of your work.

I have some posted images, look them over, their will be a lot more coming in the very near future. I suffered a severe injury to my back last year so it's a bit hard getting reorganized rt now, still digging thru boxes.
In the meantime here's wishing all a very Merry Christmas and I hope Santa puts a New M10 in all your stockings!

patman1 Loc: Pataskala, Ohio

tomcat wrote:

Proofread my man, proofread !! I know you aren't out taking that many pictures.........lol to you..... My typing is getting worse over the past couple of years because I am thinking of the letters in the words faster than my fingers can type them and I make a lot of bumbling mistakes, but the anal retentiveness in me won't let me send out messages without them being as perfect as I know how....

Heres one for you most people can't say it no less spell it
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis ( Black lung) longest word 45 letters.
Learned how to spell it when I was a kid, my IQ 135 then.