Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice one Doug! Gerry grduprey@rockwellcollins.com wrote: > > Thank you Doug, I could not have said it better. > > Gene > > > > > Douglas > Herr > > <telyt@earthlink.net> To: > leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Sent by: > cc: > > owner-leica-users@mejac.palo Subject: > Re: [Leica] M camera NOW R camera ? > > -alto.ca.us > > > > > > 07/29/2003 10:36 > AM > > Please respond > to > > > leica-users > > > > > > > > > > bdcolen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > "Most capable?" Where's the autofocus? Where are the 35 1.4 > > and 28 1.4 lenses? Where's the 10 fps motor? Where are any > > number of features that many, many, many - nay, countless - > > professional and non-professional photographers consider > > essential? > > B.D., the 35mm f/1.4 R is in the Leica catalog. > > A 10 fps motor is essential if you don't know how to time your > exposures or > if the shutter lag is so long that capturing the right moment depends on > capturing lots of moments and editing later. > > Motorized rewind is essential if you have to depend on a 10 fps motor and > you change film every few seconds. > > AF is essential if the camera's viewfinder isn't good enough to focus > manually. See "Pete", "Black Skimmer", "Golden Eagle" and "Sharp-shinned > Hawk" on my website - use a camera with a good viewfinder and focussing a > lens suddenly isn't rocket science. > > 3D color matrix metering is essential if the photographer has > forgotten the > basics of exposure metering. > > IS/VR is essential if one has forgotten how to hold a cmaera steady. I > regularly use a 400mm lens at 1/125 or even 1/60 sec hand-held, and > the 560 > at 1/125 or 1/250 sec. "Prairie Warbler" was made at 1/60 sec, "Black > Skimmer", "Northern Goshawk, immature" and "Pied-billed Grebe" were > exposed > for 1/125 sec, and "Coyote" and "Sharp-shinned Hawk" were 1/300 sec > exposures, with a hand-held 560mm lens. > > These features can be handy if one is rushed and can't take the time > to use > appropriate technique but the cameras that have these features lack > what I > consider essential: R lenses. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- Gerry Walden LRPS www.gwpics.com +44 23 8046 3076 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html