[Leica] Highly Intelligent Crop Factor Overview

Lluis Ripoll lluisripollphotography at gmail.com
Sun Jan 4 15:41:24 PST 2015


YES…. +1

Lluis


El 05/01/2015, a las 00:28, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> escribió:

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> thank you dear poet Philippe....
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>> Ted,, dear Uncle Ted :-)
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>> 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
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>> and this, thanks to guys just like you who took risks so that we'd know.
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>> I guess we now just want to shoot photos as we can, with the gear we have presumably, or are dreaming of probably too.
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>> Oh yes young lad, what you've done wrong.
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>> Well, your mistake may have been , ...,
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>> buying an M8 crop camera?
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>> ;-)
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>> Nope, definitely not !
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>> It wonderfully serves its purposes, whatever the crop factor may be :-) :-)
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>> Amities aka fond regards
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>> Philippe, a kid at any age but who knows he wouldn't want another Ronald BTW ;-)
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>> Le 4 janv. 15 à 17:58, Ted Grant a écrit :
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>>> 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 :-)
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>> One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exupéry in Le Petit Prince.
>> NO ARCHIVE
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