RE: [Leica] A Red Dot story

[leica@davidmorton.org]

Steve LeHuray wrote:

"Part of the problem with message boards is that many times the original
message has been <snipped> so many times that unless you follow from the
beginning comments do get taken out of contect."

It's a pretty clear thread. You said:

>> Gee, I have been using the 1/60 sync speed on my Nikon F3 for years with
no
>> trouble for all my magazine work so I do not understand how a higher sync
>> speed on the M6 would be "*MUCH* more useful". I am leaving in a few
minutes
>> to go over to National Geographic Television with my F3/SB28 and a 1/60
sync
>> speed to do a photo spread. Just my .03 cents worth.
>>
>> sl

Mark Rabiner responded with:

> It's the same thinking that makes some people think they cant take a
picture
> with slower than an ASA 400. It is possible. Just not at night with no
tripod
or
> other light extenders...
> like FLASH!!!
>  (which at night would certainly be fine at a slower sync speed)
> my first was a Nikon F2 which synced at i think an 80th.
> No one though anything of it. We didn't think:
> "No we cant take flash pictures until they come out with the FM which
syncs
> as 125th!"

to which you replied:

"Maybe it is like the dumbing down of our educational systems, auto
everything is probably the dumbing down of photographers."

So we see a clear progression from you not seeing a need for a sync speed
faster than that of the F3 (which has a maximum sync speed of 1/80th, not
1/60th) to "the dumbing down of photographers".

Connecting a simple working requirement - to be able to use fill flash in
bright daylight on a press assignment - to not knowing how to use equipment,
or to "dumbing down", seems like a pejorative analysis to me.

- -- 
David Morton
dmorton@journalist.co.uk

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