At 12:39 AM 12/10/2008, Dawid wrote:
>...
>P.S. I really do feel that it would be preferable to limit to OM-1 and
>OM-3 (all-mechanical bodies) - not because the result necessarily
>looks any different from the electronic bodies, but
>because it was my rant on the photographic process with an OM-1/3 -
>which we have somehow "lost" with modern equipment - which got
>this idea started, and those bodies exemplify that process.
>Not only that, they enforce it. Even though, of course, we can follow
>it with any other body.
>
>I have been doing manual exposure + incident metering for quite some
>time with my 9FPS Canon EOS,
>which is why I could let it go so easily. But it's somehow not the
>same thing.
>
>Your thoughts? And Wayne, I don't think an OM-3 has any advantage over
>an OM-4 in terms of producing
>the photographic result, so there may not be anything to see...
Exactly, no difference, so the point of mechanical is ...? To my mind
it is the effect the camera has on the photographer more than
anything else, and what that might produce artistically when the
photog mind melds with the camera, or the way the camera
shapes the photographic vision.
Perhaps the result is to demonstrate that there is no difference.
Maybe the experiment should be to shoot two pictures, one with
mechanical, one without, at different times, to see if there is an
objective artistic effect. Or to see if a 3T has an artistic advantage
over a 1n.
The ineffable experience of shooting an OM-3t is hard to objectify.
An OM-1 just doesn't quite have the same feeling in the hands.
I'm not really trying to negotiate this experiment's terms. Let it be
a mechanical shoot. But you know, there is exactly the same
electronics in the OM-3t as there is in the OM-4t. What makes the
3t magical is the little whrrrr it makes at slow shutter speeds, stimulating
subconscious areas of the brain that previously lay dormant, some
times causing a sense of euphoria and creating endorphins causing
the photog to want to shoot more... it's an addiction, you see....
Perhaps Ken should add a sound clip to his review?
Wayne
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