Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/12

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Won't Improve Your Photography
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:10:09 -0500
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In addition to this useful technique
practice, practice, practice.

Manual focus action photography
has similarities to playing a musical instrument.
The more you do it the faster and better you do it.
And you don't always have to be "taking" pictures
to practice.
You can sit and move the camera around a room
focusing on objects at different distances.
You can walk and do the same.
These practices are useful
for either range finder or SLR.
And each lens requires its own practice.
This is why a lot of Leica shooters liked Canon;
the focus turned in the same direction.
(I believe Olympus as well - ??)

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Sep 12, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Ted Grant wrote:

> "trick?" I use.
>
> Even in a quick action situations before the camera is at my eye  
> I've already picked my focus point, then as the camera comes to eye  
> I know exactly where to put the focus patch. Not sure if I'm  
> describing this correctly or not? But it works 99.9% of the time.   
> I started years ago using this method where a confusing bkgrd was  
> involved.
>
> Maybe this is something that could work for others, it's worth a  
> look and a try.
> cheers,
> ted
>
>
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