Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/11

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Subject: [Leica] OT: world press winners 2006
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Sat Feb 11 18:00:44 2006

on 2/11/06 3:52 PM, Ted Grant at tedgrant@shaw.ca wrote:

>
>>> a white chick in a bathing suit banging her head on a diving board is
>>> trivial content  <<<
> 
> Like during world championships or Olympics and a once in a lifetime one
> shot moment? For crying out loud the photographer's re-action to this 
> action
> was faster then you can spit! That's hardly trivial when it's a once in a
> life time photograph.
> 

At 8 frames per second and zero perceived variable cost who needs good
reactions?  Push the button when the dive starts, if nothing spectacular
happens delete the whole damn sequence and repeat with the next diver.

--
Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com



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