In recent years, it seems politically correct for the photography circle to criticize the old mage. You have been photographing for many years, and you have collected the big three yuan and small three yuan of the red circle and several large apertures to focus. Going out to shoot, I always feel despised by young people dressed in literature and art.
Insomnia, tossing and turning. You took a sip of the cigarette butt and then put it out. You made the most important decision on the road of photography: get on Leica! Before making this decision, you read a lot of materials and information from the media. The general view is that Leica can be used for a lifetime. Leica can make you stand by and watch the Forbidden City watchtower, and make the old mage who shouted aperture F8 incontinent. In fact, it's not that you can't afford a Leica. Look at the pile of red circles in your hand and you can buy some. Why not sell a few first and get a Leica as a backup machine?
The next morning, you ran to the photography city with several big boxes. The replacement went well, and several red circles and invincible rabbit returned a lot of blood. You cross to the Leica agency, stand in front of the cabinet, and greet the clerk with a Tian Dan accent: waiter, how much is this Leica, XX? %, no, waiter, how much is this Leica?
In fact, you underestimated the price of the brand-new Leica. Those who bought more than 65438+100000 new machines on idle fish are all swindlers in Zhongguancun. The pleasure of returning blood just now will soon be gone. You added some private money and finally got a Leica M240-P, which the clerk said is the most cost-effective machine at present. Black paint is noble, indeed! From the moment you touched it, all the losses just now were swept away. On the way home, you even held it all the time, although you haven't bought a lens yet. Gee! Germans are Germans. What a beautiful machine! You may even feel that the roadside cleaners are giving you envious eyes, and the trendy girls in the coffee shop downstairs in the community are beginning to look at you up and down.
Although it is 20 17, the price of more than 40 thousand has made your red circle dissipate like soot. The machine always has to be taken out of the door. You start choosing shots, and you have a budget of about 10 thousand in mind. After all, you spent more than 50 thousand at once, which is the total budget of lens investment in recent years. You saw Zeiss ZM camera and Fu Lunda VM camera, and asked how to configure it on hummingbirds and shadows. Finally, under the guidance of a great god, you bought a second-hand silver Leica 50/ 1.4 E43 generation version. Although there are many scratches and the diaphragm blades are still a little worn, you can buy pure blood at a price of less than 1000, which is still worth it.
Next, you begin to learn to use Leica's macular and focus estimation. You almost read several articles about Leica's official WeChat account. When you read these words full of German flavor, your confidence in Leica began to grow infinitely. Leica is God. Amen!
You start to go out at dusk and night, and you start to be fascinated by light bulbs and reflective objects. Pat telephone poles, bicycles, rainy roads, pot lids and refrigerator doors at home. Every photo makes you immersed in it. Warm colors are cyan, and the highlights in the dark are accompanied by bright spots. This TM is Dewei. You send them to your circle of friends and polish them with some gorgeous words. Your former photographers praised you, and some even began to call you a master. Some people ask about your equipment to follow in your footsteps. Leica has gradually become the main force to go out, not your backup machine.
You summon up the courage to go downstairs to the cafe and talk to that fashionable girl. She knows a lot about goods and appreciates your photos. She asked you to take a picture of her skull ring. You found a good composition and twisted the focus ring, but you couldn't find the feeling. You realize that the recent focal length of this lens is 1 m, and it is a disaster to shoot a ring with a diameter less than 1cm. In a word, the Leica machine is quite good, but the black body with silver lens is strange and the grade is a bit low. This makes you know, indeed! When you look at photos of Leica players on ins, they are basically silver or black, or at least black heads. Blackheads look a little strange. For the next few days, you still go out with your camera every day, but every time you look at it, you get a little annoyed. Finally, you went back to the photography city, made up a little difference, and changed the silver fuselage into a silver fuselage. Gee, it's so beautiful and bright! This is what I want. You start to get up in the middle of the night, touch the window sill and listen to the crisp shutter sound. ...
You start to join some Leica communities and keep publishing your own small works. After all, you have many years of experience in SLR shooting, and the lighting used for composition is quite good. With Leica's blessing, your work can always get some appreciation. When people's state is blessed by positive energy, many things will always go smoothly. Over the past six months, you have been in good shape and have done a good job. By the end of the year, it seems that private money can increase a lot.
Leica released a brand-new paraxial M 10 this year. In fact, you weren't interested at first, because you thought Leica could be used for a lifetime. Why change it? You even think that people who buy an M and an SL at the same time are wasting money. One day, you were invited to a group gathering, and several group friends bought M 10. It is an iron law to gather friends and set up all cameras to take pictures. At this time, you will find that something is wrong.
Yes, why does your M240-P look like a fat man, and the slim figure of M 10 looks so gentle and harmonious with modern lenses, while your M240-P looks a little high in blood pressure and fat. Nearly middle-aged, although a little fat, but also a fat man with a machine, this ... this ...
Your figure appears in the city of photography again. The clerk saw you grinning from afar, and you won a set of silver M 10 with your private money. Although it hurts a little, you can't lose body fat, so it's much easier to lose weight by machine. M 10 is a new machine, with simpler menus and buttons. The fuselage shape is properly aligned with the film camera, and you are used to M240-P screws. The M 10 red cola label makes your heart beat for the first time. Now that all the money has been spent, spend more. You bought a 35/2A( 1 1882) lens as a supplement. Now go out and carry two cameras and two mirrors at the same time, which are the two main focus parts of Leica. It's so cool!
35mm and 50mm lenses do have their own advantages, and your photos are getting more and more emotional. You started interacting with some friends on ins, and started talking and laughing with everyone in WeChat group. Social media is a good thing, and everything can be shared instantly. There are always some friends who will put some photos of Leica from time to time. Leica's side axle design is very modern. You will find that the lines of the modern M machine are very simple, which is to match the same simple modern lens. It always feels strange to put E43 on your M 10 and M240-P decades ago, not to mention that the fuselage is new, and those bumps and scratches on the lens are even more embarrassing. 1 1882 The lens is good, but the plastic hood is out of date. E43' s recent focal length 1m reminds you of your rollover scene with a ring. Since so much money has been spent, it is better to sell two lenses and change another one. Thus, brand-new 50/1.4a (11892) and 35/1.4a (11675) came to your hands.
Most of the time, M240-P is installed with 50/ 1.4A, and M 10 is installed with 35/ 1.4A, which is really beautiful. Although two sets of brass pimples are a bit heavy every day, you feel more literary and more like a photographer who never misses any subject. After the initial toss, you also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars back and forth, exceeding your budget for playing red circles. You decided not to toss, and you decided to be a technical party.
You began to pay attention to the works of some photographers and bought all the picture books of sebastiao salgado and steve mccurry. You will be addicted to major photography websites and occasionally send some theme posts. There are many high-tech netizens' theme posts on the Internet. You pay special attention to some of them. Their photos are full of color, and the dark part exudes a faint blue tone, which is different from the cyan blue of M 10, and is a faint blue. What is your reason for asking for help? Without exception, they tell you that they use M9 or M9-P, and you start searching for information about M9. You know what CCD is, the difference between CCD and CMOS, and the reason of CCD peeling. You try to deal with the blue color of the photo by post-color matching, and it turns out that no matter whether you lower the color temperature or cover the dark part alone, you can't get the blue color that seems to naturally diffuse in the air. Every time I watch M9 photos on ins and watch my own movies, I always feel the beauty of Jin Jun after drinking Cantonese-style old fire soup.
I can't help it You ordered idle fish again. There are many M9 and M9-P, some have changed CCD, some have good colors, and some have normal colors. You collected a few pieces with good colors and prices and put them there. You keep telling yourself, stop chopping, stop chopping! But I just can't bear to cancel their collection. Yes, don't buy this machine, just watch it every day. One day a month later, you accidentally let your wallet bulge. You thought about not paying, or doing something else, think about it, and then you opened the idle fish. ...
Buying other things is easy to be found by family leaders, but Leica; No, they all look the same. If you use more than a dozen computers every day, the leaders may not find out.
You have done your homework this time. M9 steel ash is difficult to match the lens, and it can only look good with a black mirror. I am a strange color scheme. So you chose the black paint M9, which happened that the two machines at home were both silver. It would be good to add a black paint machine for a change. At the same time, I made a black 90/2AA, because you are very good at telephoto in the field of SLR, and portraits are also the most important theme in your life. 90/2AA seems to be a good choice. When traveling, you have to take pictures of the scenery, otherwise you will win 2 1 ...
M9 has to say that there is a kind of magic. You start to take some sketches with it, and you can also get some photos similar to the Great God through various JPG settings. And the shutter sound of M9 reminds you of the feeling of using dad's camera when you were a child. After the shutter goes down, the motor turns the film, and the squeaking sound is so charming. You start to think that the M9 is really a great camera, although it is less than 20 million pixels. Long live Leica! You start to give Amway M9 to people around you, and you tell them that this is the best and last CCD side shaft, even if it is worth collecting.
I don't know if the people around you are tempted, but you have poisoned yourself. The last CCD collection is not bad, just like a brand, it is branded in your mind. Finally, one day, a silver M9-P with high quality inexplicably appeared on the idle fish, one black and one silver, one 91 P is more perfect, and the price of more than 20,000 yuan makes you feel quite suitable. You asked your opinion in the Leica team. In fact, you have made up your mind to buy it, just to get more motivation. Hitler, the big brother who must buy, bombarded you one after another. On the third day, the silver M9-P arrived in your hands.
Everything seems so smooth and perfect. So far, you have collected almost all Quan Huafu machines digitized by Leica, and each machine has certain characteristics. You can also explain their differences to novices like a great god and throw out some works from time to time. Seeing that novices can't stand it will make you feel high in an instant. You are already an old bird of quasi-intermediate level.
Leica is a world and Leica is a river and lake. Most of the old birds became immortals, stroking M3 and remembering the time when they took pictures of their naked sisters. Quasi-intermediate old birds are a huge group. When you pretend to be an old bird, there are always other old birds who will hint that your digital machine and modern lens are nothing to mention.
Yes, Leica always has an inexplicable poison that makes people gather all the focus. You should experience the famous lens. The red circle and rabbit machine piled up in moistureproof box have never been moved since Leica bought them back, and they are idle. Just sell them back. So you went to the photography city with your bag in the early morning, and the last clerk began to greet you almost every 20 meters.
Silver 0.95 and 50 rigidity must be taken home and go out at midnight the next day. Night god really deserves its reputation! The aperture of F0.95 is absolutely an optical miracle, and the depth of field as thin as bricks makes Jiao Wai melt like cream. This is the first time you have personally experienced the process of sharpening a knife in reality. The photographer grinned and lent you his 50/ 1 for a few days. You begin to find that 0.95 is so great compared with 50/ 1, and the vortex Jiao Wai of 50/ 1 spins into your dreams day after day.
Cream always makes people tired. One day, when you look at the photos of the master again, you realize that humanistic photography doesn't have to be without candy. It is necessary to add the appropriate environment to make the photos more story-telling. You start to try to shoot 35/ 1.4A every day, but it is always said by other quasi-intermediate old birds that it is almost tasteless.
Leica released M 10-P again. At this time, you can't extricate yourself. The chrome-plated black machine after M 10 can't satisfy you. You won a military green M 10-P safari and went home with a black head? Scary! Use 35/ 1.4A? Almost, with 50/ 1.4A? It's a little long. You began to pay attention to the silver beauty mentioned by the last prospective old bird. There are several shops in the photography city. Would you like to have a try? When I went to the Photography City this time, the clerks in several shops around me began to wave every 50 meters.
Sure enough, the seven jade pieces are not vain, and the scenery is soft and diffuse, just like the gentle touch of first love.
However, the aperture of F2 is still small, and 35/ 1.4A has some numbers. It is said that 35/ 1.4 has a double fault, and the dragon lacks its tail, and it is searched all over the world. By this time, you have taken out the focusing blinding 90/2AA. It is said that 28mm street sweeping can bring many surprises. You want to try this shot another day.
I went to see a master's photo exhibition, alas! The photos of the master are all black and white? Looking at the exhibition carefully, I found that many photos are similar to the angles and environments I took. When you get home, process the photos into black and white as soon as possible, yo-ho! I really feel that way, but the white and gray in the photo are not so mellow, yellow or a little blue. You know from the data that there are thousands of colors between black and white, and gray is the purest color in the world. Leica's black-and-white machine MM is specially designed to restore black and white. ...
MM+50/2AA, you have been stuck for a long time, and now you don't care much about the budget. Because I have always heard the news of Leica's price increase recently, the 0.95 that started at more than 50,000 in that year has risen to 70,000 to 80,000. Leica looks at this cabinet. They are all hard currency. Your mouth is up, aim at the door panel on the wall next to you.
And your photographer Lao Wang shouted downstairs at this moment: I brought back an ASC limited edition today, let's try the movie preset. ...
Do you think it's over?
Far from it! There are also stories about tossing camera bags, tossing shoulder straps, tossing shutter buttons, and tossing machine selfies. . .