Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted: It was actually the delay from my EOS that got me interested in the Leica and simpiler cameras that don't need to do all that computing before they open the shutter. I had an Elan IIe which was probably even worse than the A2e. After I got an R4, I noticed the shutter fired when I pressed the button, not a few moments after like with the EOS. The Canon guys just said get an 1n and the lag will be less. At the time, the R4 was much cheaper than a 1n and the optics were better. As for lag time, I noticed with hokey things happen pretty quick. It is hard to anticipate when the player will make a shot on goal. The goalie has a hard enough time of it let alone me. With a quicker release time, the puck move a shorter distance before the picture is exposed. A link to two examples of this are below. These were from last weeks game of the QMJHL in Halifax. Taken on Fuji 800 professional print film and the 400mm 2.8 APO-Telyt at 2.8 and 1/500th. http://home.iSTAR.ca/~robsteve/photography/images/hockey/mooseheads4.jpg http://home.iSTAR.ca/~robsteve/photography/images/hockey/mooseheads3.jpg Regards, Robert >In all my years of doing Olympics and many other sports, I have never >thought of, knew off, didn't care to hear of, anything pertaining to >"camera release lag time" until I got on the LUG. Then I realized "how >badly" I'd been doing these many years not knowing it! :) Yeah right.:) > >Trust me Robert, burn the book right now, read no further! You're a damn >good sports photographer at the moment and have only one way to >go...getting better!! > >Knowing and thinking about "time lag" will not improve your ability one >whit of a millisecond, it will however, take away from your reaction time >many milliseconds. Just keep doing what you've been doing and that's all >you have to worry about, > >It's all this theoretical number stuff that gets in the way of natural >instinct reaction time. Forget it! > >ted > > > >Ted Grant >This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. >http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant > > >