Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i can never compensate for unpredictable things like kids and animals with slow cameras (like the contax T2). once i was fooling around at work and took a picture of a coworker jumping off a file cabinet from below (yeah that's what us hard-working hard-playing wall-streeters do for fun). i recall pushing the artificial sapphire button and then yelling "jump!" after a few tries, the photo turned out perfectly. as for driving two cars, i was taking my family back from a 2-hour drive on the shore this weekend in the family truckster chevy suburban. everyone was asleep but me. i drove up a road i drive up every day in my commute with the corvette, a 45 degree turn on an uphill. damn near rolled the thing over. and my wife says my car is unsafe. as for the M7, i didn't think i was in the market, but erwin's review was quite intriguing. now if they could only make one with the proper-sized top plate and the shutter speed going the right way... if the M7 made the exposure reading right before tripping the shutter, it would be a heck of a camera in use with conjunction with the viso. an anachronistic pairing indeed. - -rei > From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com> > > Austin, the compensation is like driving two different cars. If you drive a > pickup truck and a Porsche 930 your approach to driving will be different. > With the truck you will give yourself more room to brake and not use your > right foot to navigate traffic. With the Porsche you can leave yourself > very little room to stop and can frequently move through even dense traffic > with the loud pedal. Likewise, with a common SLR like the Canon Rebel the > clock time can go to 200ms, so if you are trying to capture your children in > motion you will try to anticipate what will happen in 1/5 of a second and > time your shutter release accordingly. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html