Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Doug - That's the answer I was searching for when lag times were first brought up. Great illustration photo as well :-) The slight, quick reflexive movements of wildlife CAN make or break a shot. The animal world, outside us humans, are blessed with 'fast -twitch' neuro-muscular junctions that we can only dream of. I guess "ya gotta see to believe!" - and for that, most folks can just watch a hummingbird in their back yard, or a Red Tail take a vole on the run - if they are lucky enough. Love it! Ed But that's exactly what it is. If I'd had to wait for the camera to focus, to stabilize or if it took it's sweet time getting the shutter open this photo would have been only twigs: http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/prwa0.html > And does the photographer releasing the shutter > knowingly calculate this delay into the exact moment of > release?? No of course not - but the more time there is between the photographer thinking "NOW" and the shutter opening the greater the chances are that something is going to change between the first squish of flesh on the shutter button and the closing of the 2nd curtain. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html