truls
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Post by truls on Apr 23, 2013 7:36:26 GMT -5
Berndt: Sorry for hijacking your idea for this thread I also looked at your Flickr images, those XP2 Fed images were superb and professional!! Fed/Industar is really a capable combo. Interesting to peek in your vacation equipment! Film vs digital is really no issue, one can use whatever is appropriate. An observation shows less gear when traveling, more focus on having a good time and getting some memories from the holiday. When going to exotic places some stomach problems may occur, not nice to go to public toilets with diarrhea carrying a 20 pound bag of photo gear? Also waving with an expensive e.g. Leica could interest potential thieves or beggars knowing you are a rich person? I loved the Oly route! This is most likely my direction in the future. Nothing in the photographers way, only focusing on memories to capture.
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Post by Berndt on Apr 23, 2013 20:59:34 GMT -5
Thank you Truls and no worries I also see your point with the public toilet ... hahaha ... but I wouldn't carry all these cameras with me all the time anyway. I think, it's somehow predictable, what expect us on some walk or day trip, while the hotel can be some kind of base. I wouldn't carry my TLR if I go with my wife for dinner for example, but I might take it with me, if visiting an old historical town or just going to the beach for taking a beautiful sunset picture. It's about having some variety based on the smallest weight and space ... and it must be a simple to use gear too, because my wife's patience of waiting for my photographs is quite limited The digital P&S is practically almighty ( incl. zoom, flash, HDR, video, etc. ) and consuming less space and weight for that. My Bencini is super light and there are not many settings on it. It's a pure daylight camera though, but fun to use. Wouldn't take every picture with it, but some and 24 pics on a 120 roll film is a fair enough, I think. I noticed, that there are some situations, where a digital camera is better ( video, HDR, handheld shots in low light, high speed shooting, flash, zoom - does not require heavy and bulky lenses for that or just if I want to take pictures for the records without any artistic intention, etc. ) BUT there are also limits IMHO, when I personally need and want a film camera. One reason is the format. I can't afford a digital medium format camera, but I want the DOF and less distortion in narrow spaces and wide-angle shots. Another is my personal believe, that picture of human beings should not be taken on digital People may laugh about me and call me old-fashioned, but a digital camera is simply too cruel to skin and merciless in contrasts and details. Of course, Photoshop is the solution for everything and turns everybody into whatever he likes to be as daily proven on magazine covers, but I neither like this look nor do have the time to retouch hundreds of holiday pictures. So my personal solution is some kind of almighty P&S like my Casio and I always have some film camera with me for the special moments in life, which are worth being captured in the way, a photograph should look like to me. I have to confess, that I am an old fashioned man in that and if I look at the hundreds pictures, appearing on my Facebook wall every day, they are all crap. Distorted faces, picture noise ... and everything sacrificed to the gods of convenience ... plus a pinch of Instagram, covering the actually bad picture with some vintage look. And the effort is not a huge one. Its also just one click on a TLR or other film camera and the money ? Okay, how many chances for taking pictures with good friends do we have ? I haven't even had the chance for taking a picture together with my wife this year. Same as for traveling. How often do we have the chance to travel to special places and how much does it cost, comparing to the development of a few films ? And really, ladies and gentlemen, these are just thoughts and a description of my own workflow. Everybody has to find its own and that's why this thread is actually interesting. I always found it extremely difficult to solve the "holiday bag problem", because I don't want to see myself traveling with an additional luggage of ten aluminum suitcases
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