Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/08

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Steady as she goes there, lad [y]
From: "Roger Beamon" <roger@beamon.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 20:34:24 -0700

On 8 Oct 2000, Gary Todoroff wrote, at least in part:

<snip>

> Eventually, I could speed up or slow down my heart rate at 
> will, but have lost most of that ability, since you're right,
> Ted - for shooting Leicas it doesn't really have that much
> practical application. 

> Nevertheless, it never hurts to calm down, take a deep breath, and
> let it half out before squeezing off that e-mail, er, shutter, I
> mean . . .

What you've admitted, Gary, is that this breathing and shooting 
between heart beats is not a factor in photography. Let's face it, 
unless you're doing the most contempletive type of photography 
known to man, perhaps AA type subject matter, it don't make 
no difference! If you are doing that kind of work, the likelihood 
of you using anything but larger format is remote. 

As you've alluded to, this is a Leica list, and Ted is protesting  
anyone giving credibility to notions that are very esoteric with 
respect to Leica photography. Ted mentioned helicopters; you 
have much time in them photographing. Breathing, heart rate 
and squeezing off the shots between heart beats in a chopper? 
Nah!

Don't mean to speak for you, Ted, but I will anyway.  In so 
doing, I speak for myself also. 8^)  For reasons unknown to 
me, Leica folk, besides being hugely interesting people, and 
more knowledgable about photography than the average bear, 
have a proclivity to indulge in mental masturbation. That's my 
term of derision for the over analysis that so often is a part of 
Leica lists. Ted is a doer and doers do while others think about 
how to do.
- --
Roger  (Target shooter & photographer of little merit in either)

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Replies: Reply from "Gary Todoroff" <datamaster@humboldt1.com> ([Leica] Re: Steady as she goes there, lad [y])
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