Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 08:58:21 -0500 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> > Subject: Re: 35mm Eyes > Reply-to: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us If they shoot LOT's of film and only get a few shots to publish I would say the failure rate is higher than 5%. And I know I can use a motor drive and LOT's of film with a manual camera and just be plain lucky and get some great shots. With the fast grainless films of today it is even easier to prefocus and use slower long lenses to get good pictures with just a little bit of THINKING. > I do know several pros who shoot sports events (mainly races of one sort or > the other) with Canon AF gear, and they uniformly acknowledge that shooting > with a long, fast prime (2.8/300 L or so) will lead to a fair number of lost > frames, but that using the motor drive and a LOT of film ensures that some > of the shots are dead on. Of course, these guys are shooting for magazine > and newspaper publication, and their shot may end up being printed in a 2" > by 4" corner of an article, so perhaps accuracy isn't all that important. I > would guess the AF failure rate under these circumstances (fast, long prime > lens, rapidly shifting point of focus, rapidly shifting target) is 5% or so. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > > >