Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:38 AM 7/29/96 -0400, you wrote: >I guess real motor drive users have the reflexes to make some sense >with these things while squeezing off these high-speed bursts. But I >surely don't. As an EOS1n user, I can tell you, the Motor R is slow! <G> If you're shooting macro subject, the winder or the Motor in single mode, is wonderful. You bought it for the right reasons. But not at 4 fps. Save that for sports. Believe it or not, it's easy to follow the action visually, it's the focusing that's a bear. Which is why the EOS1n is the choice of sports photogs., because it can follow focus at 4 fps. Not at it's top 6 fps. And the EOS1nRS at 10 fps locks the focus, or you are at it's mercy with manual focus. Great for certain types of pictures, but you need to know what that is, or you don't need the speed. I used to shoot a lot of sports with Leica R and a 280 f2/8 Apo telyt. (Just to get back on topic). It was a superb combination. I sold a picture at an art auction last spring taken at a rodeo that really shows that combination at their best. The steer in the foreground the cowboy was jumping on showed the critter's whiskers sharp and can be. At a full run coming directly at me. I've never seen such image quality with any other lens I've ever used (Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Contax). Course, when I was shooting, I wasn't admiring the fine optical clarity of the lens, I was trying to remember I run real slow in mud up to my ankles. And the picture sold for a pretty decent price, about double what I expected. Whoda guessed rodeo could be art? <G> =================== Eric Welch Grants Pass (OR) Daily Courier NPPA Region 11 JIB chair "I think not," said Descartes, and disappeared.