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 Wed, 17 January 2001, Ted wrote: > > Kip Babington wrote: > > > <<<<<Bravo, Kyle. I agree (almost) completely with this philosophy, which is > > why > > I've gone to AF Nikon fast zoom lenses for capturing my daughter jumping > > horses over fences. I just couldn't get a decent percentage of keepers with > > manual focus lenses on the M6. No doubt Ted could do better, but I don't have > > enough time to practice (and probably couldn't afford the Leica 2.8 zooms even > > if I had the skill to use them well.)<<<<<<<<<, > > Hi Kip, > > Thought you might like to know that it doesn't take a lot of practice to shoot > those jumpers, well some helps. :-) It only takes a 400 2.8 and a 2X extender > focused a few inches in front of the jump cross pole and when she hits the top of > the jump it's just ............ click! ;-) > > ted Same here - but I use a 250 f/4.0. Anticipate the jump, be familiar with the camera's response lag (less is better!), click, and look at beautiful chromes of boof jumping horse. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/