Hard to hold and shoot? You know you can use the iPhone volume control
buttons as shutter release (instead of trying to gently touch the
screen - once)!
Jez
On 01/12/2015, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Since Bob invoked the chant of AG...
>
> I understand and agree with the vision shift. When I started shooting
> large format, I too started composing and seeing the world with
> different eyes. And more recently, as I was going through my "altered
> reality" phase, I was seeing and looking for subjects that would fit
> that vision. Unfortunately, what usually happens to me is that I see
> everything in that light and overlook or skip the compositions which
> will have legs. I'm starting to emerge from that phase and am
> screaming at myself for the missed shots from that period.
>
> To this day, the lowly Minolta A1 produces images, that to my eye,
> have a distinct 4x5 characteristic to them. It's obviously not because
> of the 5mp sensor or the 2/3" size of the sensor. I think it's a
> combination of the quirks of the lens as well as the live-view
> display. I've never gotten the same feel from any 4/3 camera, though.
> It's exclusive to that one camera.
>
> When I go out with just one or two lenses, I see the world through
> those two fixed rectangles. It isn't limiting--in fact, it is
> liberating. It allows me to remove an entire set of decisions to be
> made when taking the picture.
>
> So, here we are with our new digital cameras built into our cell
> phones. The cameras are actually VERY good and the overall imaging
> quality is excellent. Limitations? Oh, absolutely. High-ISO
> performance is gut-wrench, and you have the dynamic range of a hunk of
> waterlogged chipboard. But what is most disturbing to me, and why I
> struggle with it so much is the extremely poor ergonomics. From trying
> to see the screen in bright sunlight to the fact that it is so hard to
> hold and shoot. It has helped that I now have this selfie-stick
> dohicky monopod thing, but still, it's a pain.
>
> AG
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