tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post8584155334749056742..comments2024-03-27T00:32:29.877-07:00Comments on Photos and Stuff: I Don't Like Camerasamolitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-73865350119773113252018-05-27T07:48:20.138-07:002018-05-27T07:48:20.138-07:00While my preferred camera setup it remarkably idio...While my preferred camera setup it remarkably idiosyncratic (three different lenses, varyingly crippled on the body, requiring three completely different patterns of usage) it is only rarely an issue. I do shoot with the thing pretty much daily.<br /><br />The point is that even at the peak, the camera is "barely there" which isn't any sort of pleasure to me.<br /><br />I think a lot of people get joy from that moment of mastery, the very invisibility of the thing, the perfect melding of machine and man, etc etc. I just don't.<br /> amolitorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743439184763617516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-27038664319725680022018-05-25T11:25:14.696-07:002018-05-25T11:25:14.696-07:00Hey, you definitely SHOULD get Thom Hogan's gu...Hey, you definitely SHOULD get Thom Hogan's guide to your camera to make the most of it!<br /><br />Seriously, isn't there a certain irony in the fact that all this obtrusive fluff has been invented "to make photography easier"? For instance, I don't get how fiddling with autofocus settings is easier than bringing a rangefinder spot to coincidence, or zone focussing.<br /><br />But probably I should just get Thom Hogan's guide to my camera, too.<br /><br />Best, Thomas<br /><br />Thomas Rinkhttp://www.picturesfromthezone.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-29585112053557123922018-05-25T10:13:46.370-07:002018-05-25T10:13:46.370-07:00Yes, I sympathise with your feelings. My Sony 7rii...Yes, I sympathise with your feelings. My Sony 7riii bristles with unwanted and unlovable impedimenta. On the other hand, I love picking up my Mamiya RZ67 just for the feel and the engineering. I never actually take photos with it. And I enjoy looking at those prettily coloured Kodak vest pocket art deco cameras from the 30s without thinking of them as means of taking pictures at all.erickehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01409165571476557979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-654754338632526091.post-64258243447147910242018-05-25T08:56:04.161-07:002018-05-25T08:56:04.161-07:00Well, this bit of information certainly explains t...Well, this bit of information certainly explains the background behind a lot of your blog posts. ;)<br /><br />As for me, I <i>love</i> cameras. Tinkering with them is my daytime hobby and using them is my nighttime hobby ... photography is two hobbies in one! :)<br /><br />All joking aside, it seems to me the basis of your issue with cameras is that you don't use yours often enough to be intimately familiar with it.<br /><br />Or at least that's been my observation about others I know who have complained similarly over the years.<br /><br />As another data point, I'm so familiar with my cameras that I can -- and frequently do -- operate them in pitch black and by feel alone!<br /><br />Whenever I take a photo, my cameras -- as complicated as some of them are -- usually cease to exist and require of me no conscious thought whatsoever to operate.<br /><br />Which, of course, means I have nowhere to hide and nothing to blame whenever my photos fail on an artistic level. :(JGhttps://audiidudii.aminus3.com/noreply@blogger.com