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Subject: [Leica] Shutter speeds --o.k., the rules - and gas -Walt
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Thu Jan 31 05:46:52 2008
References: <4cfa589b0801301117k2a1b1d0eg826d2e5acc845ed3@mail.gmail.com> <0JVH007DABXLQHF0@l-daemon> <200801310033.m0V0XwGF027303@humboldt1.com> <47A13410.5010608@waltjohnson.com> <200801310642.m0V6guPP020209@humboldt1.com> <47A1CF2C.3000406@waltjohnson.com>

Walt,
I remember the handle, it's right there, erm, well
yes, duck, more, up, left, no right, you're there, what? stuck?
no, fine! :-)

s... forgot to reverse it last time I filled her up :-D


How about that ?
phx


Walt Johnson wrote:

>
>
> Gary
>
> Rules...Breath...Relax...Aim...Slack...Squeeze...Oops, that's from my 
> shooting days. It does  works well with cameras as well as M-14s. 
> though. I certainly  agree , slow can be very iffy   That might be one 
> reason there are more throw aways than keepers. The E330 looks as if 
> it is quite capable. If I ever do move into the "modern era" Olympus 
> will be my choice. Don't guess they take M lenses?  I noticed the 
> quality of the young lady's image seem pretty good for 1600 iso. All 
> the tri-x shot like that adds a lot of "texture" (grain) After a while 
> I think many of us gave up on getting rid of it and just claimed to be 
> realists. Something else, my first car was a 56 VW....30 some miles to 
> the gallon and I still managed to run out constantly. Why didn't they 
> put that handle somewhere we could remember it? :-)
>
> Walt
> Gary Todoroff wrote:
>
>> Not saying it's impossible to get the shot at slow speed, Walt, just 
>> a lot less likely. One of the advantages of digital in low light -- 
>> you can shoot a lot of extra shots quickly and at no extra expense, 
>> knowing that one of them will probably be fairly sharp. The portrait 
>> I took at 180mm (90mm Summicron-R) equivalent at:
>> http://www.northcoastphotos.com/Lympa_2006_03_14.htm
>> was the only one out of seven or eight that came out sharp. The 
>> blurry ones definitely would not have worked at all.
>>
>> The slow shutter speed contest sounds fun - I'll have to brush up on 
>> my target shooting technique! Rules?
>> Gary Todoroff
>>
>>
>
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