{"id":9939,"date":"2015-07-11T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=9939"},"modified":"2015-07-13T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:42:14","slug":"photographers-meeting-in-coffee-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=9939","title":{"rendered":"Photographers meeting in coffee shops\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I drove to Stone Creek Coffee I wondered about\u00a0our agenda? I certainly wanted to know why Troy Freund<\/a> (on left), a young, active, commercial and event photographer, decided to trade\u00a0his full frame Nikon outfit for a micro-four-thirds mirror-less Olympus kit. I’d already discussed with Rich Taylor<\/a>\u00a0(on right) why he picked up the same Olympus kit, “\u2026small, light, travel.”<\/p>\n

Troy answered, “Well I use a Mamiya medium format with a Leaf back for most of my commercial work.” Okay. I didn’t know that he’d acquired a medium format alternative\u2026 so now I can see how he may have come to a decision which on the face seems going against the “professional” gear currents. The size, weight and image quality of these Olympus OM-D 16.3 MP kits does boggle this old mind.<\/p>\n

Though they’re seen here musing over the even more mind boggling Leudi Extinction Light Meter<\/a> which Rich had brought to the table\u00a0for our consideration;\u00a0along with a nice vintage Nikon F2. Some photos of the Leudi Meter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Leica M, 28 mm Summicron Asph<\/p>\n

We also discussed our photographic motivations, inspirations, goals, projects (or lack there-of)\u2026 age\u2026 “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” \u2014\u00a0<\/span>Satchel Paige. “What are we doing photographically? Why? What or who for?” Rich and Troy\u00a0shared Olympus\u00a0images on Troy’s lap-top screen; and Rich shared some iPhone photographs that he did while “waiting” in a medical office\u2026 the most interesting to me in terms of form and content. I can’t wait to see what he may do with those images; as I perceive them, and the context in which they were photographed, immensely rich in content.<\/p>\n

Of course we also lifted cameras to eyes and clicked off a few frames. My eyes and mind seemed mostly to\u00a0consider\u2026<\/p>\n

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Leica M Monochrom, 50 mm Summilux Asph<\/p>\n

Why? Who or what for?
\nMemories\u2026
\nFascination with how people, places and things “look” when frozen in time\u2026
\nWho knows?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I drove to Stone Creek Coffee I wondered about\u00a0our agenda? I certainly wanted to know why Troy Freund (on left), a young, active, commercial and event photographer, decided to trade\u00a0his full frame Nikon outfit for a micro-four-thirds mirror-less Olympus kit. I’d already discussed with Rich Taylor\u00a0(on right) why he picked up the same Olympus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9939"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9957,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions\/9957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}