Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark >> Bad example Simon as the "standard focal length for Lions and Tigers and elephants etc. is 300 mm. << I agree, or in my cowardly case 600mm f/4 is fine! >> Not an M6 ballgame!< I agree. >>So if that's your subject matter than an M6 would not of course be your camera of choice << I agree again. >> Not the right tool for the right job.<< I keep agreeing, this can;t be right ;-) >> And I'd STILL rather do it with better than Nikon glass, I don't need autofocus... I AM autofocus! << Ah at last, a chance to debate! I would rather do it with Leica/CZ/Schneider glass. However, there are some photos that you just won't get with manual Leica glass, unless you are lucky. Take Schumacher spinning off in the British F1 Grand Prix last year. If you did not happen to have been tracking him with your inbuilt human AF capabilities, by the time you had heard the tyres screech, turned round, pointed, focussed and taken the shot he would have been in the helicopter on his way to hospital! I bet many Canon EOS and Nikon F photographers got some good shots of that action, far more than the number of manual focus photographers old have done. That said I do not know you and you may be that good. If you are then please ignore by diatribe above. Simon Mark Rabiner wrote: > Simon Lamb wrote: > > > > Uwe > > > > OK, so that I can understand how non AF people operate is fast action, what are > > your (and the groups) opinion on this. > > > > You are tracking a lioness stalking a hers of wildebeest and you know that you > > are going to see a high speed hunt in action. Suddenly the lioness accelerates > > and gives chase, dodging this way and that as a single young wildebeest tries to > > evade capture. The action is happening realtime and sometimes the animals are > > passing behind trees. > > > ><Snip> > Bad example Simon as the "standard focal length for Lions and Tigers and > elephants etc. is 300 mm. > Not an M6 ballgame! > So if that's your subject matter than an M6 would not of course be your camera > of choice. > Not the right tool for the right job. > And I'd STILL rather do it with better than Nikon glass, I don't need autofocus... > I AM autofocus! > Mark :-) Rabiner