Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Ted vs "lag time"
From: Ken Firestone <kenf@speakeasy.net>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 07:56:19 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, bdcolen wrote:

   Ken - After reading your last couple of lines...
   "I find the auto everything digital cameras frustrating, waiting for
   them to do all their things, including a 3-4 sec burst of strobe light
   before making the exposure. Maybe ok for landscapes, and family group
   shots, but not much else."
   
   ...I can only ask why it never occurred to you to read the instructions
   that came with whatever "auto everything" digital camera you are using.
   A 3-4 second burst of strobe light? Who in their right mind who is
   actually trying to take meaningful photos fails to turn off the damn
   anti-red-eye feature that plagues most modern point-and-shoot film and
   digital cameras? And who, if they don't want "auto everything," doesn't
   turn off the features they don't want? 
   
Yeah yeah, actually it did, and then the camera reset itself. But even
with this little bit of stupidity turned off there is still a lag. And
this is true of alot of the point and shoot film cameras as well. And
the pro digital cameras are too big, and too expensive.


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