Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Exact same problem Nelson: I gave it to my daughter during our vacations in diney, a couple of weeks ago, and she ended up using her Nikon P&S. Forget about shooting kids, animals or any other moving target. and Welcome, Benvindo, Bienvenido che! (Yes, we're everywhere, not just south...) aquiles - --- Nelson Ricciardi <nelson_@ricciardi.eng.br> wrote: > Hei Br. I had one of those small and powerfull > digitals. One thing made > me nuts: the shutter lag. > > Itīs take a picture today, hope you can get it > tomorrow. > > To take pictures of kids itīs impossible! > > Sold it two month latter.. > > Oh, and there was also the DOF factor. Too much DOF > with that 7-21mm > lens. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On > Behalf Of > Afterswift@aol.com > Sent: terįa-feira, 12 de agosto de 2003 04:06 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Cc: quiltwrite@comcast.net > Subject: Re: [Leica] PWIFLIs--Dinner with Parents > > > > In a message dated 8/11/03 10:50:44 PM, > pklein@2alpha.net writes: > > << This is the best of the lot, overall (my mother > and a friend): > http://www2.2alpha.com/~pklein/family/6462EmAndFriendSmall.jpg > >> > > Peter, > > In my experience a digital camera reverses film > speed. I had thought > that if > I set my Oly 5050 digital to ISO 200 or 400, I could > breezily shoot EL, > just > as I do with my M3 and a fast Leica 50mm lens. It > didn't work that way. > With some experimentation I discovered that I was > able to get good EL > shots > with the digital by setting its ISO to Auto or 64. > Digitals nowadays -- > whatever you pay for them -- need a lot of both > light and battery power > to climb up > the Herter Driffeld curve -- if such a graph exists > for a digital > sensor. And > avoid using shutter preferred mode. Use P instead, > and let the digital's > > algorithms do the work. The 5050 is about the best > of the prosumers out > there now. > But this is just one man's opinion. > > br > -- > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html