Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Photo Phreak, sir. (Excuse me, is there any chance you might have a real name so we might address you as a gentleman in the manner we do the rest of the family?) thank you. Photo Phreak wrote: >>> Going through old posts,( cleaning house ?), I will make > these obsevations on shutter lag. > Taking pictures is much like hunting. You have to learn to > lead the target...... > > It matters not what mechanical device ( camera ) you use, > none are truly instantaneous. Practice improves the work. > > The only time I REALLY had a problem with shutter lag was > doing head and shoulders of a young woman wearing contact > lenses. Her eyes were closed in two of every three frames. > > Every camera has some "lag". SLRs have more than RFs. You > learn to deal with the problem with practice.<<<<<< Actually if you don't know anything at all about release lag you'll never know whether or not it makes any difference, therefore you wont waste time trying to outthink your human reaction time and have it get in the way of capturing good action pictures. :-) It works like this, "what you don't know wont hurt you." By the same token knowing something, "shutter release lagtime" can hurt you because you'll start thinking about that and probably miss more pictures because you're trying to shoot before the action happens... ERGO... missing the peak action. Heck I never knew there was such a thing after 45 years as a professional shooter until I began learning things like that on the LUG. And I damn near screwed up a few shoots when I began thinking........."Now I better watch for the lagtime and shoot & allow for etc etc etc etc.... more BS!" Hell forget it and just shoot by your instinct and re-action, as thinking about it takes up thought processing time, slowing down your ability to instantly re-act to the moment without thinking. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html