Leica M 240. Might be the camera for ( war-) photographers if...

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The M240 is a good camera to take to war... if you intend to use it as a weapon.

[Steve Ricoh]

Most kind, guys - thank you very much.

It would be a pleasure to see more of your work, Colin, and I'm sure I speak for the majority here!

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[colint544]

It would be a pleasure to see more of your work, Colin, and I'm sure I speak for the majority here!

 

Well, that's nice, thanks. If you're interested, my website has a selection of galleries and is here - http://colintempleton.com

 

My tumblr account is here - http://colintempleton.tumblr.com - it's more personal and seems, at the moment, to mostly pander to my obsession with the disappearing tower blocks of Glasgow.

 

And my instagram account is here - https://www.instagram.com/colintempleton/?hl=en - this is pretty much daily snapshots - a lot of it is shot on my mobile phone.

 

Thanks for the interest, and best wishes all,

 

Colin

[bencoyote]

In a completely unpredictable situation as I imagine war photography is, unlike sports photography which can be just as fast-moving in most circumstances, but where most parameters are set and you operate within a known set of variables, I'm not convinced that AF is going to be the best way of getting the most acceptably in-focus shots of the critical action.

Maybe other reasons make DSLRs the most popular choice.

I'm going to say that there is a different portrayal or slice of truth portrayed with an AF Zoom lens camera. When war was portrayed with the standard Leica and 28 35 or 50 lens the shots were still within the range of humanistic photography and by nature they carried with them the humanness of the people participating in the war and carried with them the context of the moment.

 

When using zooms it allows you to step back and excerpt reality and potentially isolate away context. The fact that you can now get those kinds of shots portrays the war in a different way.

 

The thing that I've come to realize the past couple of months is that what people remember of an event or a moment is not what actually happened but rather the story I created out of the pictures that I took in that moment.

 

It is a conversation between the photographer and the camera that creates the image and the implicit limitations and the resulting creative construction working around those limitations ends up being the source material for the story that becomes the memory or history.