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Rugby with the SL


CrisRose

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Chris,

 

The strength of your photos drew me back to the website once more. It is rare that a review's photographs have that kind of draw and appeal, beyond the thoughts and words of the review. This is simply stunning work: thank you so much for posting it! It inspires me to take my own work further. 

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Many thanks guys. I really appreciate the feedback.

 

I moved from a Canon DSLR to the Leica M because the process and the manual nature of the system made me look, think and predict my photos far more. I had to try harder.

 

With time, I got used to the throw of the focus ring for different distances, I considered light and movement more. WIth just one focal length I could frame images before I raised my camera and found my photos were better than before.

 

The SL was chosen to compliment my M, as an alternative in low light and longer focal lengths. The auto focus lenses never appealed as I've never felt I missed images. Zooms are fine but its easy to waste time messing with framing. I don't plan to buy any SL lenses.

 

Sometimes the SL is easier - getting a critical bit of framing on my 25mm for example - sometimes my M9 is easier - rectangle matching is still way faster than the whole focus peaking thing.

 

Point is, they're both tools (along with my ZM lense) that are capable of far more than I can ask of them, so the real limit is me. It was getting away from AF and zooms that made me try harder in the first place :)

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