Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Back in the old days (1963 ) when I was the student photog > shooting sports at my college, I preferred the Rollei to the > Leica RF, even though the lens was slower, Because > A. It was easier to focus For me, that is certainly not true. > B. The larger format meant less likelihood of blurring the > picture at slow shutter speeds from camera movement. I don't understand how that follows? > C. You have higher strobe sync speeds, That is true, but by virtue of the leaf shutter...which has its downsides too. > D. And oh yeah, we could see if we were about to be hit by > several hundred pounds of football players. Yeah, but you'd run the wrong way ;-)