Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted,, dear Uncle Ted :-) we don't want no more wars we don't want no more Chernobyls we don't want no more Israel crushing Arabic states or people and this, thanks to guys just like you who took risks so that we'd know. I guess we now just want to shoot photos as we can, with the gear we have presumably, or are dreaming of probably too. Oh yes young lad, what you've done wrong. Well, your mistake may have been , ..., buying an M8 crop camera? ;-) Nope, definitely not ! It wonderfully serves its purposes, whatever the crop factor may be :-) :-) Amities aka fond regards Philippe, a kid at any age but who knows he wouldn't want another Ronald BTW ;-) Le 4 janv. 15 ? 17:58, Ted Grant a ?crit : > Good morning CREW, > I haven't paid any attention to these posts about "crop factor" only > because > it was never in my photon vocabulary for 65 plus years from start to > now > near finished! > > So I thought,"Well these guys know all about this stuff. "MAYBE I > CAN LEARN > SOMETHING I DIDN'T HAVE A PHOTO CLUE ABOUT?" So I've been reading > them? I > still don't have a CLUE WHAT THE HELL IT HAS TO DO WITH THE MAGIC > MOMENT > CAPTURED @ 1/1000 of a sec?" Or the runner winning the 100 meter > Olympic > Gold medal Race? > > I have 5 cameras hanging about shoulders and neck all different size > lenses > for the immediate moment required? "SEE SHOOT MERELY BY GRABBING > PROPER > CAMERA BY INSTINCT...... "CLICK!" Image captured move on to next > exciting > moment without an eye blink about what lens?????? WHY? > > ONCE AGAIN! It's the content and grabbing the camera with the right > lens is > all that matters! "DON'T THINK OR IT'S OVER!" > > It appears again that this kind of " CROP FACTOR" stuff must really > mean > something major to the "ROCK & FERN FOLKS?" Real-life shooters??? > "NADA!" > Besides if you don't know anything about it? It "ain't goin' to hurt > you!" > :-) > > Cause in Two Wars, a helicopter crash at 50 below zero, very bad > landings in > ski equipped Otter aircraft. When taking pictures of President Ronald > Reagan. Oh yeah President Kennedy, Her Majesty Queen of England, And > one of > the most beautiful photos of Jacquie Kennedy ever????? > > "This "CROP FACTOR GOBBELDY-GOOK" STUFF NEVER MATTERED? Or I don't > think so? > Because it was never in a mind thought ! Hell I didn't even know it > existed? > > So in plain understandable English language would, please "one > person?" Not > with 33 e-mails (thank you) explain to me what I've done wrong for > 65 years > and possibly I can correct the errors of my photographic ways? Thank > you > very much. > > Any other "ERRORS OF MY WAYS?????????" You are free to use your > imaginations > on that one. > HOWEVER? NOBODY HAS THE ANSWERS TO FIX THOSE! :-) :-) I suppose I > might say > "You really don't want to know?" Mischievous devil wouldn't you > say? ;-) > :-) > Thank you most kindly. > cheers, > Dr. ted :-) > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exup?ry in Le Petit Prince. NO ARCHIVE