[Leica] M9 reviewers drawn from the "unwashed masses"

[steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)]

On Nov 10, 2009, at 8:21 AM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> 
wrote:

> Frank Filippone wrote:
>>>> Yes.  But not exactly the tool for the decisive moment.......Human, 
>>>> birdie,
>>> Lion, or otherwise......
> 
> Steve Barbour offered: 
>> why Frank, and how do you know?
>> here...
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW+2009/handymanbw.jpg.html
> 
> Great shot Steve, "Action at it's best! :-) 

thanks Ted...

and as we say on hospital charts...agree with below,

:-)


Steve
> 
> Gentlemen may I interject for a moment? Thank you.
> I've never found any delay because I don't think about that kind of stuff 
> ~!!!!! ERGO! it doesn't happen! ;-) Jeeesh some of you guys are worry 
> warts! :-) 
> 
> It's quite simple really.... if you guys stopped thinking about all this 
> techie stuff and tried this system!
> 
> "SEE -- SHOOT!"  faster than I type this, you wouldn't have time to think 
> about all this lag stuff.
> 
> Quite frankly if you guys hadn't brought this up I'd have never thought it 
> was happening, "THAT IS IF IT DOES?????" Concentrate on image/shooting and 
> forget about the camera in hand!
> 
> Is there a wild possibility some of you are getting older and the lagtime 
> is your own mental lagtime?  :-) :-) :-)
> 
> But here is a tiny solid tip of advice to eliminate your imagined lagtime, 
> period! 
> 
> Buy a Tom Abrahamson "SOFT RELEASE"! Screw it into the shutter release and 
> you wont have time to think about anything because you will have released 
> almost by thought process! Blink your eyes, picture taken! :-)
> 
> You don't believe it? If you don't have it in the release and using it, 
> (me 2 years experience time)  don't tell me it wont make any difference 
> because you're only wasting your time and mine!
> 
> The release worked beautifully on film M's and sure as hell is a super 
> fast release for M digital cameras!
> Yer welcome I knew you'd appreciate it. :-) 
> 
> Dr. ted.
> "one of the unwashed masses! " 
> 
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