Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/12

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Won't Improve Your Photography
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:23:23 -0400
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At 03:12 PM 9/12/2009, you wrote:
>On a tangent, I attended the Stanford Broadcast and Film Institute
>back in 1969. We had a guest speaker, a photojournalist, who used a
>Leica and he told us that he continually practiced presetting the
>focus, just by hand with the camera down, never looking at the
>distances marked on the lens, until he felt he was "very very close"
>90% of the time. I have tried this since and I sure can't do it
>although I don't have the pressing need that he did!
>
>Adam

I've done exactly this for years!  Any time I have my camera in my 
hands and am not actually taking photos, I practice guessing at the 
focus and then bringing the camera to my eye to see how close I've 
gotten.  It's a kind of nervous habit or time-passing game I play but 
I guess it can't help but improve focusing time.

Tina

Tina Manley
www.tinamanley.com 



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