Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]ted grant wrote: > I can still hand hold my 280 2.8 easier and have a higher ratio of > sharp images at slow shutter speeds than I can the 70-180! > > So Dave from real world practice, I have to say it is difficult to hold and > shoot slow shutter speeds. :( Damn! Ted, On a serious note, I wonder if it is the R8? Have you compared shooting the 280 with the R8?? I've held the 70-180 and it seems very comfortable, more so than the Nikkor 80-200. BTW, one thing Ishot this week was barefoot waterskiing. The skier was awesome and I was shooting from a camera boat at 50mph along side and shooting with 80-200 and gyro stabilizer at 125/sec for much of it. Should be awesome blurry backgrounds and water streaks and (I hope) pin sharp skier. We'll see by Monday. And I don't have any idea how I might have managed without AF with skier moving side to side very quickly and I was doing push-pull framing. On the near side we were so close I had full body filling frame with the 80mm. I even wonder, for one frivolous moment, what it might be light to try shooting such stuff with a rangefinder. Then I just had a beer. Donal Philby Shasta Lake, California