Street Photography for the Purist

Almost everything you see can be recorded with a thirty-five or fifty millimetre lens. I prefer both. On two bodies. Both loaded with different ISO
films so that I may make many different shutter-speed-f/stop combinations.
That’s the way I do it.
You can do it with one lens.
If you have the money, put another lens in your jacket pocket.
It’s gonna get knocked.
Make sure it’s tough equipment as there is no other photographic equipment, which takes more of a beating than street photography gear – I am much
nicer to my digital photojournalist gear.
Why?
First off, digital gear is electronic. Electronic equipment is much more susceptible to knocks and bangs and drops.
Not only that but it’s inherently electronic.
You need juice.
You ain’t got no juice; you ain’t making any fucking photographs.
I prefer the Leica MP. It has a meter. Yes, it does. And it works quite nicely.
But ... it’s not necessary to make a photograph.
Shutter speed.
F/Stop.
With a battery and, more importantly, without a battery.
The M6, M6 TTL or M7 or the Zeiss ZM many others ... cannot claim this. One can only make exposures at 1/50th and 1/125th ... or bulb with the
Leicas, at least. Emergency speeds as they call them.
I don’t want to be limited.