RE: [Leica] Non-equipment related question (almost)

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Right...with the red dot in the center of your forehead they just take you
for a Hindu tourist, and that's that....;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Martin
> Howard
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 5:55 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Non-equipment related question (almost)
>
>
> bruce5@attglobal.net wrote:
> >
> > In other words, what have you learned/what do you know now, that you
> > wish you knew when you started?
> >
>
> When I had the distinct pleasure of meeting with Ted Grant in
> Vancouver
> a month or so ago, he told me something that has proven very
> useful.  He'd
> noticed how holding the M camera infront of your eye and
> winding on with it
> in that position, rather than raising it and lowering it continuously,
> make the camera "disappear".
>
> It makes perfect sense, of course.  The visual system picks
> up movement
> very well, the larger the movement, the easier it's seen.  So
> the trick is
> to keep the camera at eye level and move it as little as possible.
>
> It works!  People look over when you first raise the camera
> to your eye,
> but when they don't see you doing anything with it there
> (just holding it)
> they look away and go back to doing whatever it was they were doing.
> Leaving you free to take "candid" pictures! ;)
>
> M.
>
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> Martin Howard                     |
> Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU       |    What boots up must come down.
> email: howard.390@osu.edu         |
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