There used to be a page with an elaborate text full of info on how it all started out for me. How I became interested in photography and how it evolved during my teens up until now. Gone now, who's interested in that anyway?
The last couple of years I was so tired of lugging around all the time with a big bag of DSLR equipment that I found myself going out less and less. Luckily technology came to the rescue and with the ever increasing quality of smaller camera's like compacts, the mirrorless models, I found myself using those more often.
Then I got hold of the first M8 digital rangefinder from the "magical" Leica factory. I liked it so much that after a few weeks I decided to sell all the DSLR equipment I had at the time. Up until now I have not regretted it. I've upgraded to a beautiful Leica M9 in the meantime. I might add another DSLR to the mix still, but until now I have not found anything to my liking. Before you know it I'm hauling cargo again.
All this means is that the camera is not important. But on the other hand at some level it is, as for me personally I need to make a connection with the equipment I'm using. If the equipment is working against me in some way, like being too big or heavy to carry around or too difficult to operate, then I'm looking for something else instead. It's as simple as that.
So for the moment I'm in favor of Leica's classical less is more approach, but who knows where we'll be in the future?
The last couple of years I was so tired of lugging around all the time with a big bag of DSLR equipment that I found myself going out less and less. Luckily technology came to the rescue and with the ever increasing quality of smaller camera's like compacts, the mirrorless models, I found myself using those more often.
Then I got hold of the first M8 digital rangefinder from the "magical" Leica factory. I liked it so much that after a few weeks I decided to sell all the DSLR equipment I had at the time. Up until now I have not regretted it. I've upgraded to a beautiful Leica M9 in the meantime. I might add another DSLR to the mix still, but until now I have not found anything to my liking. Before you know it I'm hauling cargo again.
All this means is that the camera is not important. But on the other hand at some level it is, as for me personally I need to make a connection with the equipment I'm using. If the equipment is working against me in some way, like being too big or heavy to carry around or too difficult to operate, then I'm looking for something else instead. It's as simple as that.
So for the moment I'm in favor of Leica's classical less is more approach, but who knows where we'll be in the future?
In the meantime there's only 1 thing that matters and that's the images… they always outlast the equipment :)