Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Hi Ted, > > As much as I respect your opinions and even more so your work, I have to > disagree with you on this one. Shutter lag IS an important consideration when > choosing a camera if you take "decisive moment" type pictures. I am right now > looking at your picture of Pierre Trudeau sliding down the handrail that you so > kindly sent to me last year; I very much doubt that this picture could have been > made with a modern electronic camera. By the time the shutter tripped, Trudeau > would probably have been all the way down (assuming that you had spotted the > scene at the same moment as you actually did).<<<, G'day Nathan, As I've learned from others and now yourself, there is a definite shutter lag with digi cams of various makes and if the day comes I purchase one I shall take your good words to mind before I do. It's highly unlikely I'll ever buy any for shooting my work as I suppose it'd be kind of difficult hanging 3 of those honking big Canon's on my body! ;-) And with shutter delays attached it certainly eliminates them. :-) it's M7's and R8's all the way! ..... ;-) ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html