Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Donal Philby wrote: <<<<Anyone want to see a nice sunrise photo recently made in Mexico just after I saw the green flash in the viewfinder?? I didn't think so.>>>>>> Donal, Aw come on, you didn't miss it did you? :) I'm just glad it's you admitting it and not me! :) I have watched for, seen it and tried to shoot it so many times I've lost count. I don't think it is humanly possible to see and shoot at the same time, whether you are using an M or R, EOS or NIKON! If anyone has seen the green flash and actally had reflexes fast enough to get it on a stills frame, it has to be 200 % pure luck. I've seen it on movie film with a pro crew running high speed cameras, only because the camera was rolling before the sun broke the edge of the horizon. I wasn't aware of the "green flash" until I read an article in Readers Digest a very long time ago and ever since, whenever there is the opportunity to photograph a sunrise over water I have tried to capture it. I trust everone out there in LUG land knows about the "brilliant green flash" just as the sun breaks the horizon, quite beutiful, but I bet rarely captured on film, Leica or not! :) So you missed it eh? Gee after all these years I now feel better, because a buddy admitted he missed it also. :) ted