Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bu times have changed mon ami. We not have the added benefit of technology to "help" our creative talents (no way I am saying AF because that horse is dead a long time). Peter K - -----Original Message----- From: allan jay silver [mailto:silver@proaxis.com] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 10:53 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] AF Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > > Take our a tape measure and lay out 4 feet. Now set your camera at 4 > > feet with a 35 or 28 or 24 lens. Now walk around the house or studio > > and when you get 4 feet from things hit the shutter. > > > > I leant this while in London: My feet move much faster than my focusing > ring! ;) Do you people remember years ago when flash units were rated by Guide numbers? There was no TTL metering. We often did the same thing that Mark Rabiner suggested. If the GN was 48, for example, I would set the f-stop at f8 and set the distance on the camera lens to 6 feet. Always making sure we were 6 ft. away when snapping the shutter. In those days we had to be inventive. Allan