Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]All manual exp helps. I practice timing a lot. Shoot kids bouncing basketballs and try to stop the ball at specific places. I only shoot 1 or 2 frames. The pros shoot hundreds of frames. Leo Wesson leowesson.com > On Mar 7, 2014, at 16:48, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote: > > I was a much better sports photographer back in the good old film days > than I am now. I had trained my trigger finger to click the shutter of my > Leica the instant before I saw something interesting happen and chances > are I got the picture. I was a specialist in soccer. I had both played and > coached the game and could anticipate the action. Local newspapers called > me to cover regional and state championships. > > > Looking back through my old files I had a lot of great shots. Here is one > published in a newspaper almost 50 years ago. Note the long hair and the > "traditional" soccer ball. The picture was taken on a cloudy, overcast > day.? Pushed Tri-X film was necessary to get a high shutter speed .The > grain is simply from a big blowup. The picture looks like crap on a > computer but looked OK when printed in a newspaper using a halftone screen. > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Soccer_001.jpg.html > > > But now with my digital cameras I press the shutter button and wait and > wait and wait for the picture to be taken. Sure, they are in focus and > exposed correctly and the ASA 6000 sensor means that I don't have to push > film speeds but getting the critical moment is a matter of guesswork. By > actual test my DSLR takes nearly half a second in auto mode from button > press to shutter click. A big league baseball would travel from the > pitcher's hand to the catcher's glove in that time. Even by using all the > tricks, manual settings, prefocus, etc. I can't reduct the latency to much > less than .25 seconds. My reaction time with a film Leica is half that. > > > Motor drives and sequence photography anyone? It seem like cheating to me. > > > Ted, what does your son do? > > > Larry Z > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information