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Subject: [Leica] Canon 800mm IS
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri Dec 26 14:18:05 2008

It's picking a movie frame out of a movie.

And as Leica started in the 1920's out with using movie film in a still
camera its oddly on topic but a bit of a stretch..

Mark William Rabiner



> From: Seth Rosner <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:08:59 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon 800mm IS
> 
> Ah, Seth the retard! I didn't know what a burst mode is, thought perhaps it
> was what happened when a large person tries to get into inadequately sized
> but modish garment. Thanks to you Mark, I've figured it out. It's like a
> light transmitting or rather a light receiving scatter gun that depends on
> chance rather than skill to capture an accidental image. Modern photography
> is becoming much clearer to me.
> 
> Still bemused or bewildered or both.
> 
> Seth
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 4:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon 800mm IS
> 
> 
>> The whole concept behind the burst mode is the make the processs of
>> photography even more mindless than it already is taking more control away
>> from the photographer and putting it into the post processing people.
>> The art director can feel is if she's the one there taking the pictures in
>> the first place. As she's picking the precise part of the moose chew.
>> 
>> Had this been a shoot in which the photographer shot all day but turned in
>> some choice frames (as is usual) this would never have happened.
>> 
>> The photographer would have turned in one which they had not missed their
>> focus.
>> You let them pick them and they don't always know.
>> Don't always have time to find their loupe.
>> 
>> But this is not capturing the moment.
>> The moment is capturing YOU.
>> 
>> The Decisive Mastication!
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Richard Man <richard.lists@gmail.com>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:19:24 -0800
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon 800mm IS
>>> 
>>> Oh man, if it looks bad on the web sized JPG, forget about the full size
>>> ones....
>>> 
>>> ...but hey, you cna see the moose drinking. How cool is that from a $3K
>>> DSLR. Do such a better job than the $200 digicam!!! (yes, I am being
>>> sarcastic...)
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:39 AM, wildlightphoto@earthlink.net <
>>> wildlightphoto@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I saw this link posted on another list:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2526
>>>> 
>>>> promoting the Canon 50D and EF 800mm f/5.6 IS
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com
>>> // b: http://rfman.wordpress.com
>>> 
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