Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No shooter I know is EVER on Program Mode! Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I think you'll find that most, make that pretty much all of the known > shooters if they're not at P they are most certainly at A. > A 35mm camera is all about speed... Shooting very fast. > > Photography fortunately is not philosophy or theoretical physics. > Its tangible results. And those results are photographs which you can hold > in your hand or look at on the wall or a Bing or Google contact sheet > search. They are a matter of public record. > You really think when you see a shot of anything on the news or street > shooting you are looking at a photographer whose set the shutter speed and > f > stop for that particular picture. And iso? > And my photographs and the photographs of the vast majority of shooters all > using various auto modes are matter of record. All you have to do is look > at > them. And do to that you by contact sheet Binging or Goggling them. > > Shooting a camera it in the foot by disabling its main features is only > smart a vast non majority of the time... > Even when you're shooting a thing standing still you're in a fast moving > situation because YOU are fast moving. > If you're slow moving use a Rolleiflex or a view camera. At full manual. > > Oh and its great John turned off the auto ISO the minute he got his new > camera we'd not want to have him confused dealing with something new. > > On 6/8/13 2:21 PM, "Lottermoser George" <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > > > > > On Jun 7, 2013, at 9:51 PM, John McMaster wrote: > > > >> One of the first things I did with my M is turn off auto-ASA, why do I > want > >> to not be in control of my photos? > > > > most especially if one disdains any sort of "auto-post-process" ? > > > > Personally I don't like or use auto anything > > unless I'm feeling lazy or shooting extremely fast action sports, > events, etc. > > (which has become fairly rare) > > > > different strokes for different folks > > > > Regards, > > George Lottermoser > > george at imagist.com > > http://www.imagist.com > > http://www.imagist.com/blog > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >