Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Martin, Sometimes, even after you decide its the time to press the button, having a second or third image that is slightly later in time (split seconds) after when you decided it was the decisive moment, "may help" ensure you have the exposure you wanted plus another that may be even a better choice. Peter K - -----Original Message----- From: Martin Howard [mailto:marho@ikp.liu.se] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 9:50 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] AF, a FAD? "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" wrote: > > ... but law of averages would be in my favor as would be technology. > OK, I don't work as a professional photographer, but in my foolish mind I thought that the difference between a photographer and a monkey with a camera was that the former knows *when* to press the shutter button, rather than playing the law of averages. M. - -- Martin Howard, Grad. Schl. for Human-Machine Interaction, | HMI/IKP, Linkoping University, SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden.| Just Tel: +46 13 28 5741; Fax: +46 28 2579; ICQ: 354739 | say "DOOH" E-mail: marho@ikp.liu.se; www.iav.ikp.liu.se/staff/marho/ +------------