Re: [Leica] 3200 Speed Film

[Lee Bacchus <lbacchus@home.com>]

Just to merge two threads together (TMZ and kid shots)... After
unsuccessfully trying to bag the elusive ankle-biter (using candy bait and
chocolate bribes), I lock and loaded the M6 with TMZ and tried the
scattershot approach. No flash, just lots of random firing as the target
swirled around me. Eventually, you nail something that captures something
just a little bit truthful about being a kid...Example at
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo.tcl?photo_id=103643

Lee Bacchus
Vancouver

> From: Steven Alexander <alexpix@worldnet.att.net>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:42:14 -0500
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 3200 Speed Film
> 
> on 11/14/00 8:54 PM, Marc James Small at msmall@roanoke.infi.net wrote:
> 
>> At 01:02 AM 11/15/2000 GMT, Dan S wrote:
>>> You're right on about the high speed film fetish.  I guess there are times
>>> for everything, but in 20+ years of available light photography I have never
>>> needed film faster than 400asa.  It's frankly amazing to me that a
>>> photographer who would dump so much into Leica lenses would even accept the
>> 
> In 30+ years of photography I have found plenty of need for film faster than
> EI 400.  Available light or darkness, fast lens and slow shutter speeds are
> not the whole answer for fast moving children, street people at night and
> hundreds of subjects I've worked on.  TMZ is a picture saver.  As an Ilford
> user I'm not yet a D3200 user.
> 
> Happy snaps,
> 
> Steven Alexander
>