[Leica] Re:Photos of M8 now D2x

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Robert D. Baron wrote:
>Seeing Ted's 20D + Leica lens photos of swimmers made me all the  more 
>impressed with his unique ability.
>A couple of weeks ago I tried to photograph some of our dogs in the 
>backyard with my 5D which has a third party BrightScreen viewfinder 
>(brighter than the stock screen) and various Leica R lenses.....and  I got 
>maybe 5% of my shots in focus.

Steve Unsworth responded:
> Hi Robert, I don't want to denigrate Ted's excellent shots, but  swimmers 
> tend to move in a straight line at a fairly constant speed,  kids and dogs 
> don't :-)<<<<

Hi Bob,
Steve is absolutey right! :-) By the same token a bit of experience shooting 
sports for 40 years kind of helps! ;-) Dogs or swimmers! ;-)

My suggestion for the dog and pups is, get a couple of hot damn terrific 
fast auto-focusing Canon lenses when you want to shoot the dogs in action 
and you'll be laughing all the way to the successful bank! :-)

And leave the Leica glass for rock and fern non moving non-breathing 
subjects! ;-)

ted