Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 1/17/01 8:46 AM, Kyle Cassidy at cassidy@netaxs.com wrote: > heny answered his own question when he posted: > >> I have been using my M6TTL for a couple of months now >> and put it to the test this weekend with three >> grandchildren, ages 10 months, 2 years, and 6 years. >> >> I just couldn't focus fast enough and missed so many >> great shots. Went to the zoo and shot more outside >> stuff with greatly varying light which added time to >> setup the f stop. I was really frusrated and yearned >> for my old Canon EOS3 with zooom lens and auto >> everything. >> > > <lecture> > > [with a stern face, the plug waggles a finger] > > get your eos3 out of the closet and put your dang zoom lens on it and > press the button. we're not going to criticize you (though i'm sure half a > dozen people will post things like "you need to practice focusing more, > have a friend throw a lens chart into the air and practice photographing > it. then, under a loupe, examine your results.") > > because you want to fiddle with a neat old camera is not a good enough > excuse to miss images that you want to capture. unlike skiing, > photography is about the RESULT not the JOURNEY. when you're standing at > the Met in front of your pulitzer prize winning photograph, people may ask > you what kind of camera you used but when you're standing in the MotoPhoto > looking at 36 out of focus photos of bobby's birthday nobody's going to > give a ding what kind of camera you used. get the picture, then worry > about your camera. if your leica aint getting the shot DON'T USE IT. > remember the old addage: "never try and teach a pig to sing. it wastes > time and annoys the pig." > > </lecture> > > kc > > http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/leicaslacker/plug/10/index.html > > > I second that! JH