Comments on: Paris Shorts http://tleaves.com/2009/07/29/paris-shorts/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike http://tleaves.com/2009/07/29/paris-shorts/comment-page-1/#comment-5440 Mike Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:38:21 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=1959#comment-5440 I recently picked up an old LX1 to play around with -- I've always liked the Panasonic cameras, and made-in-Japan lens or not, the glass does say Leica on it, which makes my heart skip a beat every now and again from sheer hedonism. I like it. It may as well be a fixed-lens, fixed-stop camera for all the fiddling and twiddling controls it has, but that suits the way I work: keep the machine out of the middle of the image-to-photo translation. It goes places that the dSLR does not, and for that reason alone it's a big win in my book. I had a LC1 -- picked it up cheap with a dead sensor and had Panasonic replace it gratis -- but if you're hauling around something that size, you might as well have bought a dSLR instead. I recently picked up an old LX1 to play around with — I’ve always liked the Panasonic cameras, and made-in-Japan lens or not, the glass does say Leica on it, which makes my heart skip a beat every now and again from sheer hedonism.

I like it. It may as well be a fixed-lens, fixed-stop camera for all the fiddling and twiddling controls it has, but that suits the way I work: keep the machine out of the middle of the image-to-photo translation. It goes places that the dSLR does not, and for that reason alone it’s a big win in my book.

I had a LC1 — picked it up cheap with a dead sensor and had Panasonic replace it gratis — but if you’re hauling around something that size, you might as well have bought a dSLR instead.

]]> By: peterb http://tleaves.com/2009/07/29/paris-shorts/comment-page-1/#comment-5439 peterb Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:42:08 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=1959#comment-5439 Amusingly, I learned on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QI" rel="nofollow">Quite Interesting</a> last night that "Violin d'Ingres" is a French idiom that means something akin to "a hobby done so well it's practically a profession." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Auguste_Dominique_Ingres" rel="nofollow">Ingres was a famous painter</a> who also, it turns out, was a virtuoso violinist. It's also the title of a <a href="http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=61240" rel="nofollow">photograph by Man Ray</a> Amusingly, I learned on Quite Interesting last night that “Violin d’Ingres” is a French idiom that means something akin to “a hobby done so well it’s practically a profession.” Ingres was a famous painter who also, it turns out, was a virtuoso violinist. It’s also the title of a photograph by Man Ray

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