Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 1/18/01 10:58 AM, Brougham at brougham3@yahoo.com wrote: > All this means is that you're spending way too much time thinking and > not enough time doing. :) > > If you're a touch-typist, you don't think about what finger you need > to move in order to form a word. In fact, many common words are > "programmed" into my hands by now. Likewise, I don't think about > which way I'm focusing the lens. Or which way I'm turning the shutter > speed. Just do it! :) Quite right. But when you are faced with an unfamiliar camera your muscle-memory quits and it's handy to remember this. It's repetition that drives this kind of stuff from the conscious to the pre-conscious, so when you say... > > If you have to think, you're not doing it nearly often enough! ...you're dead on the money. It's like metering... I realised I was getting good at doing it by eye AND unconcsciously adjusting the camera when, every time I took out the incident meter the camera was already at the right settings. Now it doesn't bother me in the least if I don't have a meter with me. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com