I Love composing with the bright frame lines of a real rangefinder camera. It's different than EVFs and pentaprism finders. You get to see past the edges. You get a taste of what else you can exclude or include in a shot. You aren't stopped cold because you see some fault more clearly with an image preview. So you shoot and hope for the best. Then you might have to fix stuff in post. But if you'd been coerced into passing by an image because a preview told you it wasn't working when your eyes clearly saw that it was you don't even get a shot to play with. Maybe you can't save it but....maybe you can.
"I think it is not so much about what the camera can do, but what you can do with the camera."
-Thorsten Overgaard.
Leica M240. Carl Zeiss 35mm f2.0 ZM lens. f8-ish.
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You really ought to see this larger. Bag the phone, grab something with a big monitor and knock your self out.
Very crisp, very contrasty, and awesome colours. Not unlike how the Leica Q2 draws? Like your title, use of the Overgaard quotation, and recent M posts Kirk... looking forward to more.
This post is the most simple and honest way to explain why someone might choose to shoot with a rangefinder camera such as a Leica M240. Different cameras affect the way you shoot in different ways. Whether any of these ways is "better" than another is often just as much subjective as it is practical. As long as you're getting the results you want and you're not putting down photographers who prefer a different approach, who am I to question your methods?
Thank you Kirk, love this post! Would love to see some of these as decent sized prints. Maybe its time for a Kirk Tuck Print Sale over at TOP :) Of course, they would have to be printed with some arcane analog process like dye destruction printing and you'd have to choose which ones to offer and then all the printing, shipping, and associated drama but hey, art isn't easy, right?
The blues get me. Quite a picture. (27" color calibrated monitor)
"Do different cameras affect the way you shoot in different ways? I think so."
I take that to mean, implicitly, that you would agree that shooting with a B&W only camera will affect the way you shoot?
While I'm sure MJ could sell hundreds or thousands of prints of this image for me the stress of having to "curate" the process, "audition" scores of printers to find just the right one person (with the correct mindset and personal politics; degree of wokeness), experiment, in conjunction with the chosen printer, with dozens and dozens of different archival papers, and additionally test to see what ink sets look best with a chosen range of papers always seems to be a Herculean task when I read about it.
I think I'd prefer doing something different with my time. But, pixtorial, if you really like the image email me and I'll send you a big file you can print from. One time use for your personal use only. Just a thought.
MikeR.
"I take that to mean, implicitly, that you would agree that shooting with a B&W only camera will affect the way you shoot?"
Oh dear! Yes indeed. I'd have a hard time differentiating between the reds and the blues....
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