Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike Quinn explained: >>> It's the same with choices of camera gear. The differences in lag times are > important. You can ignore them and still make good pictures, but knowing > that some gear takes a long time to record the image affects the way that > you work and the results that you get.<<< Hi Mike, But I never knew any of this stuff until it started to appear on the LUG. In my life as a photojournalist I've not ever related to these kinds of things and I've either been the luckiest shooter in the world in not knowing it and yet capturing some very compelling moments in sports, wild life and people. So reading about it and obviously it appears it's a big deal for some folks, I just can't fathom what the heck the big deal is knowing it. I understand what Doug Herr said when he explained about the effect of LAG in the type of photography he's a master at. But if one never knew that "release lag existed" and still captured award winning moments does it make any difference knowing it or not knowing it? > Well Ted, you're lucky that shutter lag has never lost you an image in your > long and rewarding career. (Luck is an extremely useful photographic > accessory). <<<< I suppose so, but it's always been my understanding that "one makes their own luck." What ever that means. > But could you have built the equipment you used for the last 52 years? > The people who did build it were concerned about the "number stuff".<<< That's true but we're not designing /building cameras, we're using them to take photographs. I realize what you're saying and I'd be curious about lag and mirror return and all that kind of stuff if I were building a camera. However, that isn't what we're talking about. I suppose my point is, that not knowing this information and have the successful career I do, does it really make such a big deal that some folks make of it? Excluding Doug Herr because I know exactly what he means in his work. But photographing people in photojournalism coverage of disasters, war and the likes of every day living and dying? Does it make any difference and is it so important to know that one must know it, to be a successful photographer? > Still, I think you'd agree that the time difference is important to someone > trying to decide whether to use a brush or a camera.<<< Possibly so, but I think it's far more important to have the "feeling in your gut" to capture a motivational moment than knowing the multi-milli-second of a lagtime. ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html