Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina Manley SHOWED: Subject: [Leica] IMG: Motion and Stop-Motion > I have two photos motion. The first one shows motion: > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/151729596 > > and the second one shows stop-motion: > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/151729778 > (note the lens on that one, Ted!) Hi Tina, I knew the lens went to a good home and would be used well! :-) Action at it's best! Nothing like shooting moving critters, dogs or other wise when using a manual focus lens, in particular a LEICA 2.8 280mm hand held! You have to focus and swing it about like it was a 50mm! :-( Trust me it was done hundreds and hundreds of times. YEP I MISSED SOME! :-( You heard it here first! :-( Tina I like the second shot as peak action of all four feet and dog airborne! And everything sharp! As it should be! This is the kind of final photos we all strive for while shooting action, trust me it doesn't always happen. If you are thinking about shooting sports or any action packed subject it's best to be prepared to shoot hundreds and using a motor drive can be helpful if you make the motor drive work properly for the action is helpful. HOWEVER A MOTOR DRIVE ISN'T THE BE ALL TO END ALL CAPTURING THE PEAK ACTION ! That still comes down to you the photographer and your instinct of tripping the shutter at the peak action moment! Today however many of the younger crowd "machine-gun every subject they shoot" and still miss peak action because they rely on the motor drive. But the motor drive has no instinct to "click the shutter" at the right time. ERGO? TODAY THEY MISS FAR MORE THAN THEY GET RIGHT! However, practice makes perfect as they say and with the 280mm I used at the Olympics and many other international sports events from 1984 through to 1992 with the 1.4 extender and 2X in Barcelona, my last games! :-( Before leaving for the games I did a work out with the lens while standing at the side of a local highway for 6 weeks nearly every day. I shot on coming cars manually focusing on the front license plate while they were doing 100 MPH. Trust me lots of them slowed down thinking I was a police officer with a radar gun! :-) The idea was..... given I was shooting film in those days, lots of rolls unfortunately and souped every night.:-( To improve my instinct to shoot as I had the license plate in sharp focus. During the six weeks it was possible to see the in focus frames become better and better by the day. So when it was high speed action sports, my re-action to the action was wonderfully improved. Along with my instinct to trip the shutter quicker in re-action to the action. cheers, Dr. ted :-)