Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Every piece of equipment on earth, has leads, lags, and quirks of all sorts. Turning the helm of a huge ship. Ted and I would run it through whatever is in front of it. The professional helmsman knows instinctively how to maneuver the ship. He/she can instinctively anticipate the huge lag in response and pull the supertanker right up to the buoyed spigot. A person like Ted, who has been in the professional business of taking photos for decades, knows how to take photographs of whatever the assignment is, from years of experience with a multitude of equipment. I have Ted's books and I have seen a lot of his work. Missing the decisive moment due to shutter lag is simply not possible. Ted instinctively knows his equipment and his brain/motor hand/eye coordination simply takes over without conscious thought of, "oh, let's see now, should I push the release now, uh, oh, wait a second, uh, click" As a matter of fact, ANY professional in any business has their brain/motor/hand/eye coordination running on autopilot. Concert pianist, race car driver, machinist, photographer, whatever you can think up, all know their craft cold. So in the case of a professional photographer, shutter lag differences between say, an M7 and an R8 are not ever a conscious thought. You just pick it up and go to work! Only an amateur would even think that the subject has merit. Unless the subject is digital! You push the shutter of a multi-frame-per-second digital camera way before something _might_ happen, then hope to hell that one of the frames caught the decisive moment. If there was a decisive moment. What an ugly way to do business! JB At 06:43 PM 8/6/2003 -0700, Mike Quinn wrote: >Ted, > >Yes, it makes a difference. >It would make a difference to you if you ever wondered about why you >sometimes failed to capture that winning moment. Selective forgetting is >another great photographic accessory. The saving grace is that we are judged >by the ones we catch, rather than the ones that got away. > >The way of ignorance need not be justified. >One can close one's mind and still do great things. >Perhaps others should close their minds too. >I'm glad that some are searching for another path. > >Mike Quinn > >Ted Grant wrote: > > > 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? > >-- >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