Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> >> Subject: RE: [Leica] Thanks!! OT Contax G2: Cost >> >> ISN'T >> THERE ANYONE ON THIS LIST ANY MORE WHO IS ACTUALLY OUT MAKING PHOTOS...AND >> INTERESTED IN THINKING AND TALKING ABOUT THE TECHNIQUES AND PHILOSOPHICAL >> ISSUES INVOLVED? >> > [BOB KRAMER] Sure B.D.! Here are my offerings of the week, taken > in downtown Atlanta last Saturday afternoon: > > http://www.mindspring.com/~rnkramer/7.html > > I guess I am just an old cynic at heart, but if you enlarge the > photo of the post-modernist spire, a remnant of the '96 Olympic games, you > will see that it is held together with duct tape! I guess they just don't > build 'em like they used to. > > From a technical standpoint, I am blowing too many shots because of > slight camera shake as I attempt to hand hold the camera at 1/10th second > shutter speed (that damn f2.0 Summicron is really starting to cramp my > style). I guess I'm not as steady as I used to be. I need to do something > about my coffee addiction, but I thought I would ask you good LUGGERS a > question. Would Tom Abrahamsson's soft release help me with this problem > (not the coffee addiction, but the camera shake at 1/10 sec <g> )? I > *think* the shake occurs when I release the shutter, causing an ever so > slight torque in the camera body. Or is this speed too slow for the soft > release to help. Thanks for your input. > > Bob Kramer > Atlanta, GA > Bob, That is a great week 07 photo. And, being a heavy coffee drinker myself (there is a new study out that heavy caffiene users are not likely to get Parkinson's Disease) I have always wondered about the benefits of a soft release, so, maybe somebody can explain it to me because I do not see how the shutter release on a Leica could be any softer. Steve Annapolis