Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Due to the remnants of a head cold and the effects of self-prescribed generous doses of Knockando, my stroke-of-midnight image would have required a Noctilux and TMax 3200 pushed several stops to get something barely printable of my inert horizontal form. However, earlier in the season, I did discover the utility of the R electronic remote control for portraits including both self and canine companion. With the R4 and winder from which Sherry Krauter recently exorcised all the demons, I set the remote control to trip the shutter every 18 seconds or so. This interval allowed the Speedotron to recharge itself and me enough time to try to get the labrador into position. Three acceptable shots out of 36 resulted; the rest were of dog walking toward the camera, dog's rear facing camera, dog being pulled into position, etc. And, belatedly, LUGs, please accept my best wishes for '99. Roy On 2 Jan 99 at 16:21, Alastair Firkin wrote: [snip] > I gave it the 12sec delay, picked up the dog and headed for the > family snap, [snip] > The "delayed image" was taken when the tripod was "re-loaded" with > the Z2X.