Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Ted vs "lag time"
From: Afterswift@aol.com
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 02:34:47 EDT

In a message dated 8/7/03 11:25:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tdschofield@sbcglobal.net writes:

> If I recall correctly, once you set up in the menus,
>  you press 1/2 way down and it would start recording
>  frames into a buffer memory, then when you press all
>  the way, it would keep the 5 or so frames before you
>  released, plus so many afterward.  Like a motor drive
>  sequence, but before and after instead of just after. 
>  Weakness was it was < 2MP, and the faster you go, the
>  lower the resolution because of the limits of the
>  buffer size and processing speed.

Then, indeed, the Oly (?) was operating by way of the shutter button. Now the 
half-way shutter button denotes the AF in the Oly 5050. This catches a Leica 
photographer as something unnatural.

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