Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/08

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Subject: [Leica] very long leica exposures
From: kyle cassidy <cassidy@hector.asc.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 100 11:12:25 -0500 (EST)

Les Bonser wrote:
>I'm routinely able to get excellent shots at 1/15th and sometimes good
>shots down to 1/8th or 1/4th of a second hand-held with a 45mm/50mm lens. 

pish posh! you haven't lived until you've seen bernard delgado's 1 second
+ handheld shots of new york city -- especially the concord divebombing
times square in the middle of the night. mostly with some nutty scnoo or
IIIc or similarly unusable camera with seven focusing/viewing windows and
four dials for selecting shutter speeds. how come he never posts this
stuff?

kc