Since my iPhone picture got so many likes on Instagram yesterday, I thought I'd show you the picture I took with the Leica a few seconds before. Not really to compare the two pictures qualitatively - because both pictures are snapshots that have their place and show the Binnenalster from its typical side. Do you know the statement:
The best camera is always the one you have at hand.
I don't remember who I picked up the statement from first. But I think both pictures show that it's true. The camera is just a tool to capture the things that are important to you at this moment. Of course, you take different pictures with a Leica than with an iPhone. But that doesn't make it better or worse - just different. The approach to your subject is determined by the camera, but you determine your subject.
Hehe 😀 Didn't we talk about that exactly? I think it's credited to Capa, but you know how it is with quotes 😉
I'm currently testing the Oly EM10, for in between, between the iPhone and 5DII. But somehow I'm afraid that it will be a new iPhone in the foreseeable future. (And at some point a Leica 😉 )
But I would rather recommend the Lumix GX7…
Yes. Good quote. Nice Pictures. Mood captured well.
True words - although sometimes the saying "The best camera is always the one you left at home" is unfortunately also true ;-). Seriously: when the best pictures of the participants were selected after a workshop I attended recently, a picture from my compact camera outdid my rangefinder camera. Perhaps the first effect of my excessive Moriyama consumption in recent months...
Help me out - I can't tell which picture you took with which camera...
: )
I'll be gone then 🙂
Maybe your monitor is not calibrated...
That's so true….
Greetings,
Werner
One picture is totally blurry, except for the strange duck. This is definitely from the iPhone.
Homma. It does not work like that. That's the same picture. So the one shown here and the one linked on Instagram. 😉 I guess: iPhone.
OK, on the iPhone the arrows for scrolling through the pictures aren't so visible - so I've now switched on the automatic slide show...
Oops. Understand. Now suddenly and in fact they are two different pictures 🙂 Thanks for unlocking it!
Thanks for looking twice :)
In this case, I think the image with the maximized depth of field (iPhone) is much better. A much greater relationship is created between the (individual!) duck and the water, the horizon, the row of houses. The other seems more arbitrary to me.
Hi Stefan, technically I like the image from the Leica better, but it's not half as interesting as the one from the iPhone. The way this individual duck/goose looks across the Inner Alster is what I like and the background can also be sharp to capture the vastness.
I think it doesn't matter what a picture is taken with, the only thing that counts is the result.
I'm a big fan of wide-open photography and playing with depth of field, but with these two pictures I just think the photo from the iPhone is more successful. Of course the Leica has better bokeh, oh what a miracle. But with the Leica you just have a goose in water. Only very few people would realize that this is Hamburg. For me it could have been Amsterdam or Stockholm.
In the photo from the iPhone you have a goose looking at the Alster and the Landungsbrücken. You have the Hamburg flag flying, the television tower in the background. Awesome picture!
They gave the duck two rings and they have to constantly mark the poor creatures... no wonder she looks so annoyed