Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Noctilux and birth pictures and others
From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:44:20 -0300

Bennett:

Thank you for the compliments.  I am off to a motorcross race Sunday.  I
have never shot motorcross so I am hoping that I will get at least a few
decent shots.  I will use my R8's for that, along with the 400mm and 180.
I like the look of sports pictures where the background is well out of
focus such as when shot at between F2.8 and F4 with the 400 and F2 and F2.8
with the 180.  The fast lenses are easier to focus too.

Regards,

Robert


At 03:54 PM 9/23/99 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 9/22/1999 8:39:02 PM Central Daylight Time, 
>robsteve@hfx.andara.com writes:
>
><< http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/ciau.htm >>
>
>Robert -
> I have done tens of thousands of sports photos and still wish to compliment 
>you on your work.  I prefer the rangefinder (of all things) to the R when 
>photographing indoor sports (esp. basketball) because the "decisive moment" 
>is easier to capture.  The shutter lapse is almost nil with the M, and,
while 
>fast, still behind the moment with the R series.  While it may be that I am 
>just still able to see the action while the shutter is tripping that makes
me 
>perfer the M, I still have the confidence in it for that type of work. It is 
>obvious you have that presence of mind to trip the shutter at just the peak 
>time.  I know we have lots of shots which end up (or should end up) in the 
>trash can, but if you take into account that the average National Geographic 
>article is the cull of nearly 300 rolls of film ( yes, 300), then we don't
do 
>so bad.  Anyay,  I prefer the R for just about everything else.  With 
>basketball season coming up again, I'm looking forward to using my Noctilux 
>under the bucket.  It is just plain fun to grab those pix.
>
>Anyway, enough rambling.  Good work.  
>
>Bennett
>
>