Manual Focus Quotes

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

When a regular camera focuses physically, what the regular camera is doing is adjusting the lens relative to the sensor to bring different parts of the scene into focus.

I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.

In terms of digital photography, I continue to print and use film for the most part. I still shoot with film, 21/4 film specifically, and I love it. I love it because I know what it does, how it really responds to light.

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.

DSLRs take beautiful pictures, but they are hard to focus.

A Leica camera is a camera we can keep both eyes open. You can look for the free eye that doesn't look to viewfinder and in all directions. It's like backwards - and sometimes also backwards, and you can look for the viewfinder and see your picture.

Back in the day, I actually studied photography in Florence for a few months, and my photography teacher took away my digital camera and said, 'No, use this - it's analog and it's square.' It was a Holga camera, a very cheap $3 or $4 plastic camera. And that's what inspired 'Instagram'.

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.