Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 29, 2010, at 9:33 AM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Gary Todoroff offered interesting testimomial. However, are we not talking > about two different camera systems? > > One, the M8-9 rangefinder camera with nothing flipping up and down? > Compared to an SLR of some kind with flipping mirrors and whatever extra > screens that move about? Is that not correct? Different systems? > > My gut feeling is the more things to go click-clack in the night as the > shutter is released the greater the opportunity for LAG-TIME to occur? I > can understand a lag time occurring. But the M8-9 is camera to eye, quick > focus.... click! Done! And if there is a delay I don't doubt these are as > much human reactions involved in what the photographer sees and by the > time his nervous system creates pressure on finger tip to push click! > > And this with the minds eye re-calling "just the moment" seen compared to > the taken image. If one is experiencing this regularly here's a tip how to > speed your tripping and nervous system up. > > Stand on the side of a highway and focus on the front of on coming traffic > and do this until you can get 36 rams in a row sharply in focus. It works! > As it's an old training exercise I have always done for years before going > to cover world international sports events as tee Olympics. You will be > surprised how much faster you become in "SEE-SHOOT-SHARP!" > > So far with my M8 I have absolutely no sense of so-called milli-second > lost moment of what I saw and reacted to faster than I breath and my heart > beats. This is why I put as much of the LAG-TIME back on the shoulders of > the photographer than blaming the camera. Meaured or otherwise, we humans > see and shoot or don't shoot as fast as some of us think we do. > > And this is why over the years I have consistently offered.... "YOU CAN'T > THINK AND SHOOT!" Nor can you think and bat in baseball as Yogi Berra > offered. There isn't any question, we as humans time measured or > otherwise, have different see-shoot nerve systems of re-action time and > this little nerve triggering system is what make great sports > photographers better than 99% of all others. Their nerve system > re-action. > > I trust this is somewhere along the lines of your thoughts and experience. > > But from this side of the screen I can honestly say I have never > experienced this phenomena knowingly with an M8 or M9. my impression too Ted, maybe long in absolute micro/milli seconds, but an inconsequential fraction of the time it takes to see, think, click.... I suppose that if the "delay" is below some absolute threshhold, we can't perceive it .... Steve > > cheers, > ted > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information