Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It is not the electronic which makes an SLR slower, its the mirror. You may try the following: Take a pendulum of approximately 6 ft. length (if you like you could strap your Leica, a bottle of beer, the keyboard of your computer...). Let it swing and try to take a picture, when it is exactly at the bottom. If you can do it you have overcome all secondary influences as mirror flapping, imprecise release buttons, slow brains in imagining what will happen next (this is usually my problem, but if I really had it here, I'd move to a cheap video camera), electrons searching their long way through short wires, pimples on your finger etc. christoph