Comments on: Noctilux does NYC http://leicarumors.com/2009/12/10/noctilux-does-nyc.aspx/ Leica news, before it happens Tue, 22 May 2012 19:07:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: David http://leicarumors.com/2009/12/10/noctilux-does-nyc.aspx/comment-page-1/#comment-2774 David Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:28:37 +0000 http://leicarumors.com/?p=3252#comment-2774 Do you need such an expensive lens to take a good picture in most situations? Obviously not. You don't even need a Leica (dare I say!) (Chase Chavez with an iPhone is awesome). (I say most situations because you do need an expensive lens like a 400mm f/2.8 or a 600mm /4.0 to take decent wildlife pictures, and those lenses are expensive). Does it necessarily follow that if you are rich and have a bunch of camera equipment, that you are necessarily a bad photographer who has never taken a decent picture? Or that if you did it's out of pure luck and skill? I don't know, but I think that is a bit of stereotype. Is that much different than saying that poor people who have cheap camera equipment are more likely to take decent pictures? Again, I don't know since I've never conducted a controlled study myself . . . Do you need such an expensive lens to take a good picture in most situations? Obviously not. You don’t even need a Leica (dare I say!) (Chase Chavez with an iPhone is awesome). (I say most situations because you do need an expensive lens like a 400mm f/2.8 or a 600mm /4.0 to take decent wildlife pictures, and those lenses are expensive).

Does it necessarily follow that if you are rich and have a bunch of camera equipment, that you are necessarily a bad photographer who has never taken a decent picture? Or that if you did it’s out of pure luck and skill? I don’t know, but I think that is a bit of stereotype. Is that much different than saying that poor people who have cheap camera equipment are more likely to take decent pictures? Again, I don’t know since I’ve never conducted a controlled study myself . . .

]]> By: John Koelsch http://leicarumors.com/2009/12/10/noctilux-does-nyc.aspx/comment-page-1/#comment-2773 John Koelsch Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:08:37 +0000 http://leicarumors.com/?p=3252#comment-2773 Hmmm, wondering back a bit to the days of the ailing and starving Edward Weston on Wildcat Hill near Carmel. Wonder what EW would think of all these rich city boy shutterbugs...who've never taken a decent picture but have all the latest toys. Hmmm, wondering back a bit to the days of the ailing and starving Edward Weston on Wildcat Hill near Carmel. Wonder what EW would think of all these rich city boy shutterbugs…who’ve never taken a decent picture but have all the latest toys.

]]> By: mingmac http://leicarumors.com/2009/12/10/noctilux-does-nyc.aspx/comment-page-1/#comment-2772 mingmac Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:59:20 +0000 http://leicarumors.com/?p=3252#comment-2772 $ 10,000 Oooooooooh $ 10,000 Oooooooooh

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