big cameras and little cameras

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From: shannon stoney (sstoney@pdq.net)
Date: 08/29/02-06:36:35 PM Z


>
>That's really my point as well. I said the view camera can't be as fast as a
>Leica, which is why I'll never sell my Leicas. With practice using one can
>become instantaneous (I talked about this in a magazine article I wrote back
>in 1995--amazingly, I still get fan mail from it). My point is that people
>overemphasize the gap between what you can do with a small hand camera and
>what you can do with a large camera on a tripod. Instant response is the
>realm of the small hand camera. Quick response doesn't rule out the big
>camera.
>
>---Carl

One problem I have is that cows seem more afraid of me when I have
the big camera with me. They don't mind little cameras as much.
They seem to have the opposite reaction of people in Times Square.

--shannon

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