Re: [Leica] A Red Dot story

["Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>]

> 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
Steve LeHuray said:
>
> "Maybe it is like the dumbing down of our educational systems, auto
> everything is probably the dumbing down of photographers."

To which David Morton replies:
>
> 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".

On the F3 'X' is 1/80th and there is also 1/60
>
> 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, please take it in the context of 'big' picture (no pun intended).
Everybody knows about the dumbing down of the educational system, the lack
of reading, writing & 'rithmatic, which are the reasons being given for
the sorry state of education today. My analogy was directed at AE,AF
cameras, etc. Meaning the lack of basic photography skills which exists for
a lot of new photographers today.

OK? Friends??

sl