Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Ted, I knew I could depend on you. I have seen way too many kids with a good eye start with pedestrian equipment, take great shots, then upgrade their equipment and lose the eye and timing. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 9/18/06, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > > Don Dory asked: > Subject: Re: [Leica] Slow M8 burst mode? > >>Even the sports guys know when to press the shutter.Possibly we could > >> >>ask Ted's son if he just turns the drive on and fills a 8GB card and > >>asks >>may I have another?<<< > > First of all Don I haven't followed this thread as I thought it was a > stupid > topic as soon as I saw the first post.....then it was delete, period. > > I'm sure my son Scott would be only too pleased to answer. However it's > not > necessary because he learned how to shoot sports and the use of motor > drives > from the old man here. ;-) > > Those people who think all one has to do is hold down the motor driven > shutter release and that's how people get great sports pictures I've got > news for them.... "stick it in your ear idiot!" It doesn't work because > the > peak action will sure as hell happen between frames, digital or film! > > A photographer who knows the sport, the moment of actions happening shoots > the peak action, then with a follow through of maybe a couple of frames > motor driven. But the initial re-action to the action is the photographers > own finger on the shutter release...."click!" > > All this sillieness about the M8 and slow M8 burst is coming from "fools > who > are nothing more than button pushers, not real M users!" > > 99.999999999999% of my pictures with any of the M Leica gear over 40 > years > as a professional has been one frame at a time. Until a few years ago when > I > acquired Tom Abrahamsson's RapidWinder when I could get 3 frames off > manually. Generally with 2 being throw aways! WHY? > > Because the first frame was usually right on the mark.... due to my > re-action to whatever the moment was and the following 2 were TOO LATE! > :-( > > But why anyone would be rapping on about the M8 and slow advancing is > beyond > me! Just infintile amateur stupidity. > > ted > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >