Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wolfgang: How far were you from the basketball action? If you were courtside and close, the 135/2.8 DOF at flash apertures may not be deep enough. I suspect that, if your exposures were OK with ASA 100 film and flash, you were fairly close. If not, and you were using a wide aperture, you may have enough ambient light to cause blur at 1/50 because the flash was not sufficient to stop the action. The only way for the 135/2.8 to be used in this fashion is for conditions to allow the flash to be the ONLY recordable light source. At courtside, prefocus on the net or the area of interest and use the most powerful flash and the smallest aperture possible. Remember, the Elmira has a fairly shallow DOFF at f 2.8 even at distances exceeding most flashes. Great lens though....good luck. JB - ----- Original Message ----- From: Wolfgang.Oehms <Wolfgang.Oehms@t-online.de> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 9:54 AM Subject: [Leica] Re: What went wrong?