[Leica] IMG: Pool Paradise

[Jim Nichols]

I have had good luck with hand-held shots at 1/15, and your suggestion 
is a good one, but, in the case of this pool waterfall, the light was 
just too bright to permit me to reduce the shutter speed, even at 
minimum aperture.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 9/16/2015 12:26 AM, Herbert Kanner wrote:
> Here’s an advantage over film: shoot at 1/15 but take the picture say four times. The odds are quite good that you’ll find a sharp one. Of course, that depends on a fair extent to the weight of the camera. The Leicas are heavier than most, and I’ve lucked out a surprising number of times at 1/15.
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> Herbert Kanner
> kanner at acm.org
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> Question Authority and the authorities will question you.
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>> On Sep 15, 2015, at 7:38 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
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>> Hi Herb,
>>
>> I have also found that touch screens, in my case an iPhone 6, can have a mind of their own.
>>
>> I thought about the shutter speed's role in capturing the waterfall, so I varied the aperture to force it to slow down, as I shot a series of exposures.  The one that I posted was ISO 200, 1/300 at f/5.6.
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>> I continued to stop down, finally reaching 1/70 at f/16.  In examining the images, I could see very little difference in the rendering of the flowing water.  You are probably correct, that 1/15 would have smoothed it out, but I had no way of achieving that without a tripod and a neutral density filter.  So, I just chose the image with the best overall sharpness, ignoring the water.  ISO 200 is the normal base value on the X-E1.  There is a "contrived" setting of 100, but I never go there.  Maybe this time I should have tried it.
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>> Thanks for looking.
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>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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>> On 9/15/2015 8:10 PM, Herbert Kanner wrote:
>>> My first reply went empty. Yes, touch pads are a great improvement over mice, except that at times an accidental light touch does what you don’t want.
>>>
>>> What I’m writing about is the exposure for the waterfall at the back. Lately, I became a believer in like 1/15 to fuzz up the water and suggest motion. But when I first had the opportunity to try it, the toy Lumix camera wouldn’t stop down beyond f/8, not far enough to permit that long an exposure. I was pissed off at the time. I think I also went to the lowest available ISO. Don’t really remember.
>>>
>>> Herbert Kanner
>>> kanner at acm.org
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>>> Question Authority and the authorities will question you.
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>>>> On Sep 15, 2015, at 7:25 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
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>>>> This is the shallow end of the backyard pool where I attended a birthday party on Sunday.  The kids had a blast in the pool and on an inflatable water slide.  There is a low board at the other end.
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>>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/The+Shallow+End.TIFF.html
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>>>> Fuji X-E1 with 27mm
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>>>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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