Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stop and focus first???? Most of us who shoot sports or other moving subjects follow focus the subjects. There is no stop and focus first. - -- Harrison McClary Gee Harrison I'm glad to find someone come along who is more inclined to shoot real time action and not think about the 100 millisecond delay on the camera reaction to the action.:) It has been explained quite technically well and I believe what is being said, however from many years of sports photography at the Olympics and other international sports levels, until the other day when this topic of delay came to be, it was something I never knew of, nor did I ever consider it a "major" concern in my sport or any action photography. I've tried to follow this discussion regarding millisecond delays between AF camera, manual R7's and Range finder's and for the life of me I can't put milliseconds into actual capturing of the image. I realize it can be measured, that's a given and I'm not trying to give anybody a hard time over that, but how many of the great shooters of sports from SI or other sports photography agencies even relate to this technical situation. Or are even aware that it exists and if they do, even consider it as a daily concern in their shooting? If we could do a poll in this group of those who shoot sports and or action photography on a regular basis might be interesting to find out: A/ Were you aware of this millisecond delay? B/ If so, do you compensate your shooting? C/ And if you compensate, How much? D/ Now that you know about it, are you going to worry about it? E/ Are you aware that you missed the peak action of your award winning sports picture due to this unfortunate delay factor? Even though you were awarded Sports Picture of the year? A few respondents to the above might put this phenomenon into realtime picture taking, that many can relate to far more than the theoretical possibilities that I find hard to measure in personal shooting. I'm not denying the delay is there, but how can you measure or expect to fine tune your shooting reflexes tighter than they are when you shoot sports on a regular basis. My success without even knowing about the delay has been knowing the sport, certainly anticipation in relation to an expected point of action is by far the greater part of successful sports photography, IMHO. ted