... greatest thanks from Germany, too!!! :grin:
I have to admit that I only own one German camera right now and this is more of "emotional" reasons, since my hometown is Braunschweig and the DHW-Fototechnik (Rollei) struggles to stay in the camera business...
I have just followed this whole thread over the last days and on a lot of points I just found myself knodding in front of the computer screen. I understand very well the temptations that "new" or let me say "special" gear can cause to my mind. On the other hand - especially in the later posts - the style remarks sound very reasonable to me. I see two "styles" to be considered: a) the style of the output and b) the way of working with / using some special gear.
This is what I've recently experienced when chosing pictures to print large. Most of them have not been taken with my "highest value" gear but rather with special gear (film and digital) which I am very comfortable to use. This applies to other fields in my live, too.
But I feel the "change gear and grow" approach has some truth in itself. Moving to different film sizes, panoramic cameras and so on has shown me that each of them has its strenghts and challenges (cons). But one can try to overcome the cons and build on the strengths. As I found out for myself this enforced me to "re-think" the way I set up pictures concerning the framing of the scene as well as the ways of post-processing and so on. Even though there where some death ends (camera-wise) for me, I hope I took quite some experience with me to use in my regular photo-taking.
Regards,
Helge
I have to admit that I only own one German camera right now and this is more of "emotional" reasons, since my hometown is Braunschweig and the DHW-Fototechnik (Rollei) struggles to stay in the camera business...
I have just followed this whole thread over the last days and on a lot of points I just found myself knodding in front of the computer screen. I understand very well the temptations that "new" or let me say "special" gear can cause to my mind. On the other hand - especially in the later posts - the style remarks sound very reasonable to me. I see two "styles" to be considered: a) the style of the output and b) the way of working with / using some special gear.
This is what I've recently experienced when chosing pictures to print large. Most of them have not been taken with my "highest value" gear but rather with special gear (film and digital) which I am very comfortable to use. This applies to other fields in my live, too.
But I feel the "change gear and grow" approach has some truth in itself. Moving to different film sizes, panoramic cameras and so on has shown me that each of them has its strenghts and challenges (cons). But one can try to overcome the cons and build on the strengths. As I found out for myself this enforced me to "re-think" the way I set up pictures concerning the framing of the scene as well as the ways of post-processing and so on. Even though there where some death ends (camera-wise) for me, I hope I took quite some experience with me to use in my regular photo-taking.
Regards,
Helge