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Subject: [Leica] IMG: A sports pic question for Ted
From: imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 01:29:53 -0000
References: <8D1086E8744F945-12D4-17BDF@webmail-d281.sysops.aol.com>

Having spent many aeons cheering on my spawn with a ball at their feet, 
here's one I took of my youngest in '08 with a digital while clearing a bit 
of trouble with his head.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/50543475 at N00/2309151754/in/photostream/

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <lrzeitlin at aol.com>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 10:48 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: A sports pic question for Ted


> I was a much better sports photographer back in the good old film days 
> than I am now. I had trained my trigger finger to click the shutter of my 
> Leica the instant before I saw something interesting happen and chances 
> are I got the picture. I was a specialist in soccer. I had both played and 
> coached the game and could anticipate the action. Local newspapers called 
> me to cover regional and state championships.
>
>
> Looking back through my old files I had a lot of great shots. Here is one 
> published in a newspaper almost 50 years ago. Note the long hair and the 
> "traditional" soccer ball. The picture was taken on a cloudy, overcast 
> day.? Pushed Tri-X film was necessary to get a high shutter speed .The 
> grain is simply from a big blowup. The picture looks like crap on a 
> computer but looked OK when printed in a newspaper using a halftone 
> screen.
>
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Soccer_001.jpg.html
>
>
> But now with my digital cameras I press the shutter button and wait and 
> wait and wait for the picture to be taken. Sure, they are in focus and 
> exposed correctly and the ASA 6000 sensor means that I don't have to push 
> film speeds but getting the critical moment is a matter of guesswork. By 
> actual test my DSLR takes nearly half a second in auto mode from button 
> press to shutter click. A big league baseball would travel from the 
> pitcher's hand to the catcher's glove in that time. Even by using all the 
> tricks, manual settings, prefocus, etc. I can't reduct the latency to much 
> less than .25 seconds. My reaction time with a film Leica is half that.
>
>
> Motor drives and sequence photography anyone? It seem like cheating to me.
>
>
> Ted, what does your son do?
>
>
> Larry Z
>
>
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