Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/15

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Subject: [Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue Apr 15 18:45:42 2008
References: <C42A6872.A13E8%mark@rabinergroup.com> <4805072D.5020308@tele2.fr> <70165397-4C7B-42D4-90C5-A44689CD4171@nathanfoto.com> <200804152233.m3FMX5X7022877@mail.imagecraft.com>

Again, what you require is accurate tracking in Continuous Focus Mode,
believe me, the 51 point tracking system in the D300 is very good - I use it
for wildlife and birds, both of which tends to be even more twitchy and
unpredictable in their movements.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Richard Man <richard-lists@imagecraft.com>
wrote:

> ?! Believe me, the Shidara people are moving, jumping, leaping, and
> flying. Without the IS, there's no way I can shoot the 35-100 at 1/20th of 
> a
> second, at F2, at ISO1000. IS compensates the camera's movement. You can 
> set
> it to do IS for horizontal only for panning shots if that's what you want.
>
> At 02:09 PM 4/15/2008, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>
> > Which is why I rarely use IS, since most of my targets are indeed
> > moving. I was in a bar with my wife and son tonight, and was shooting
> > at ISO 800 with the 1.4 25mm PanaLeica. No IS, but with that ISO and
> > lens combination I was getting shutter speeds of 1/30 or 1/60, which
> > is fine.
> >
> > Nathan
> >
>
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please
> use richard at imagecraft.com)
>
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In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510)
Message from philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD) ([Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510)
Message from nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510)
Message from richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] Leica R lenses and Olympus E-510)