Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, D Khong wrote: > Hi all, > SNIP > Speaking about low light shooting, I shot my church choir with my M3 and > 90/2.8 under artificial light. My Gossen Sixtino 2 could not register the > reading so I had to bracket with lens full open at f2.8 all the way from > 1/30 sec to 1/2 sec. Every shot was hand held, elbow braced against my > chest, took my deep breath and pressed the shutter gingerly. I took 5 > bracketed shots on Ektachrome 100. The exposure gradation was superb. > What surprised me the most was that when viewed under 10x loupe the > sharpness hardly deteriorated from 1/30 to 1/2 sec. The hand held shot at > 1/2 sec was definitely more than acceptably sharp. I'm impressed!! > > Dan > Singapore. > Wow! That is an impressive story: and to think that I was happy with the results of shooting with my 50 Summicron wide open at 1/10 of a second! In one of the older Leica manuals there is a section written by Alfred Eisenstaedt in which he writes about having taught himself to hold his IIIc steady for shots at 1/2 a second. Certainly the ability to hand-hold my M-3 at very slow speed is one of the things that make it irreplacable for me. Are there any other such stories out there? Gary Toop