Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/18

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Subject: [Leica] IMGs: A Sporting Trial (& framing too)
From: john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:59:42 +0000
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Same thing for the 4x4 trials, just harder terrain ;-) My road legal 4x4 has 
fiddle brakes.......

john

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Thanks to everyone who guessed. John's high speed picture was close but
> way-y-y too fast!
> Have a look at these.
> http://gallery.leica-
> users.org/v/DouglasBray/Sport/Motorsport/2013/Gallows2013/
> 
> The explanation and comments on framing are below this extract.
> 
> "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote
> >>>>
> > I agree... and even if it were possible to make the M frame lines 100%
> > accurate at the focussed distance parallax would make the foreground
> > and background and the spatial relationships between foreground,
> > subject and background inaccurate.  For 100% accuracy a minimum of TTL
> > viewing is required.
> >>>>
> 
> I found that out on Saturday at a Sporting Trial (a mudplug) at Gallows 
> Hill in
> Newcastle, Co. Wicklow. I hadn't been at one for forty years. I brought the
> Fuji X100S rangefinder, and, on the positive side, was able stand right 
> beside
> the cars as they attempted the sections. The idea of the trial is that the 
> car (a
> very specialised machine with either a motorcycle or a VW beetle engine) 
> has
> to try to get through each section which is marked on each side by
> descending numbered pairs of poles without touching any of the poles or
> rolling backwards.
> 
> The numbers start at 10 and work downwards. If you touch the start poles
> you score 10, and touch the last set of pole and it's 1. Clear the lot and 
> you
> don't score anything. The winner has the lowest score over all the varying
> sets of sections. Time is not a factor, speed is relative, never exceeds 
> 10 to 15
> miles an hour, and no wears a helmet.
> 
> The cars are unusual in that they often have three separate braking 
> systems -
> one for the front wheels, one for the left rear, and one for the right 
> rear.
> Driver fitness is not an issue and sometimes driver fatness can be a 
> positive
> for traction. Finesse, precision, anticipation, and neatness are 
> everything.
> 
> The problem for me was that I was so close, bits of the picture I'd framed 
> in
> the rangefinder were missed. I'll use my Nikon the next time despite its
> weight.
> 
> Douglas
> 
> 


In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] accurate framing (was: Re: for those interested in future Leica developments))
Message from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] IMGs: A Sporting Trial (& framing too))