Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sonny Carter wrote: >>> We have never been able to domesticate auto-focus. It does what it wants to most of the time. <<< I'm still seething from my latest brush with camera automation. It's one of those stories about the one(s) that got away: how I spent an hour paddling to the location, finding my subject and having the incredibly good fortune of having the loon eating a fish within 20' of the kayak in good light for at least a minute with flat water (stable kayak) and a perfect reflection in the water, and making several exposures while failing to notice the camera's mode switch had been bumped to (a) instead of where I thought I had left it, (m). Maybe I made up the part about the fish but everything else is true. Result: badly clipped highlights. F*** automation, f*** the does-it-all-if-you-can-set-the-switches-and-modes-right design mentality. I want a digital SL with DMR image quality: an awesome viewfinder, RAW only, manual exposure only and (obviously) manual focus only; a histogram for review. I'd rather concentrate on light & subject than modes, meter patterns, algorithms and overrides, especially when I also have to pay attention to wind, current, yaw, wakes and whether the paddle is falling overboard. I had to restrain myself from pitching the thing into the lake. The f***ing mode switch is getting a healthy dose of gaffer's tape. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web