Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/07
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Doug,
That's a really beautiful shot, I love how the mane flowed...
chaz
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Herr" <telyt@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Using Leicas for sports/action photography?
> On Fri, 07 September 2001, "Wang, Albert" wrote:
>
> >
> > I was just wondering whether how good are Leica cameras in terms of
taking
> > sports or action shots where a fast focus/high shutter speed is
necessary? I
> > know that the Leica R8 has its fastest shutter speed at 1/8000 although
it
> > is entirely manual focus which makes it very difficult to capture a
hockey
> > game for example... is that the reason that I hardly see any Leica
cameras
> > at the Philly Flyers games? :)
> >
>
> It's not hockey but it's fast:
>
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/mammals/pete.html
>
> and I find that birds in flight, thought to be the domain of
AF/IS/VR/ColorMatrix/EyeControlled/DoesItByItself SLR cameras, are not a big
deal (URL below).
>
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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