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Subject: [Leica] Shutter speeds --o.k., the rules - and gas -Walt
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Thu Jan 31 07:12:18 2008
References: <4cfa589b0801301117k2a1b1d0eg826d2e5acc845ed3@mail.gmail.com> <0JVH007DABXLQHF0@l-daemon> <200801310033.m0V0XwGF027303@humboldt1.com> <47A13410.5010608@waltjohnson.com> <200801310642.m0V6guPP020209@humboldt1.com> <47A1CF2C.3000406@waltjohnson.com> <47A1D164.8000704@tele2.fr>

Well to be honest.. My Dad had more trouble running  out of gas after I 
drove it last..... :-)

Philippe AMARD wrote:
> Walt,
> I remember the handle, it's right there, erm, well
> yes, duck, more, up, left, no right, you're there, what? stuck?
> no, fine! :-)
>
> s... forgot to reverse it last time I filled her up :-D
>
>
> How about that ?
> phx
>
>
> Walt Johnson wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> Rules...Breath...Relax...Aim...Slack...Squeeze...Oops, that's from my 
>> shooting days. It does  works well with cameras as well as M-14s. 
>> though. I certainly  agree , slow can be very iffy   That might be 
>> one reason there are more throw aways than keepers. The E330 looks as 
>> if it is quite capable. If I ever do move into the "modern era" 
>> Olympus will be my choice. Don't guess they take M lenses?  I noticed 
>> the quality of the young lady's image seem pretty good for 1600 iso. 
>> All the tri-x shot like that adds a lot of "texture" (grain) After a 
>> while I think many of us gave up on getting rid of it and just 
>> claimed to be realists. Something else, my first car was a 56 
>> VW....30 some miles to the gallon and I still managed to run out 
>> constantly. Why didn't they put that handle somewhere we could 
>> remember it? :-)
>>
>> Walt
>> Gary Todoroff wrote:
>>
>>> Not saying it's impossible to get the shot at slow speed, Walt, just 
>>> a lot less likely. One of the advantages of digital in low light -- 
>>> you can shoot a lot of extra shots quickly and at no extra expense, 
>>> knowing that one of them will probably be fairly sharp. The portrait 
>>> I took at 180mm (90mm Summicron-R) equivalent at:
>>> http://www.northcoastphotos.com/Lympa_2006_03_14.htm
>>> was the only one out of seven or eight that came out sharp. The 
>>> blurry ones definitely would not have worked at all.
>>>
>>> The slow shutter speed contest sounds fun - I'll have to brush up on 
>>> my target shooting technique! Rules?
>>> Gary Todoroff
>>>
>>>
>>
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Message from walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson) ([Leica] Shutter speeds --o.k., the rules)
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