Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On full burst with a motor drive, the shutter is closed a LOT more than it's open. AND you have NO control over when it's open. Ric Carter A fair sports shooter in his day http://gallery.leica-users.org/f/Passing-Fancies On Sep 18, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Don Dory wrote: > Michiel, > I will step in before Ted answers. Primarily it is to have the > camera ready > for the next frame without you having to take the camera away from > your > eye. Take a football match whichever form you prefer; you might > release the > shutter when there is a really spectacular collision, but the > bounce and the > faces immediately after might be very good as well. So you might > very well > release three to ten frames just on the chance that something > unusual will > happen. Most of the time your first decision was the correct one, but > sometimes the consequences are better. > > Take the match where France lost the World Cup. The whole sad > encounter was > one where you wanted a fresh roll of film or a large CF card as it > just kept > getting better from a photographers point of view. > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > > On 9/18/06, Michiel Fokkema <michiel.fokkema@wanadoo.nl> wrote: >> >> Ted Grant wrote: >> > >> > 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! >> :-( >> > >> >> Ted, >> Excuse me for my ignorance but can you please explain to me what >> is then >> the reason to use motor drives? >> I can see your point in getting it right on the mark but you also say >> you and your son do use motor drives when photographing sports. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Michiel Fokkema >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information