lumix lx-2 / leica d-lux 3

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here's a first sample from the panasonic lumix lx-2 that my work bought me along with my thoughts

 

 

I shoot Leica cameras and I still shoot film rather than digital. This provides for a higher image quality as well as a unique photojournalistic approach to photography.

 

My natural documentary style has always been to capture my subjects relaxed, unscripted, and enjoying themselves. By operating inconspicuously, my photography insures a unique mood.

 

From those spontaneous moments to the family portrait, I incorporate a mix of traditional

and photojournalistic styles. This is where the Leica excells as a camera.

 

I still find myself using traditional film cameras exclusively. I dislike the clinical, artificial vinyl look of digital photos and the inherent limitations in this particular format with the constant

upgrading digital systems as often as computers - digital is not a stable format yet. To use the cliché, it doesn’t work for me.

 

I’m more absorbed with traditional means of photography. A soulful experience whose essence can not be captured digitally - only film will truly capture the soul of photography.

 

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative. I certainly think there are applications for digital photography and digital film. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to. I don’t think that digital photography is romantic yet. It’s not sympathetic the way that film is.

 

I don’t think that they should necessarily try to make digital look like film. It should be like learning to speak a new language. Digital should have its own language. Obviously try to use as much information as you can, as with a piece of negative. But it’s a different language and rather than try to make it into film, let it be digital, let it be what it is.