Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Ted Grant wrote: Hi Frank, I'm in the minority, as I follow along and as the peak is beginning to happen I shoot one frame when it does! And if necessary I follow along letting the motor pick up the aftermath of whatever happens. Motor drives, as much an asset as they are for sports, can also be the worse thing invented for shooting them. Many of the younger lads and lasses rely on the machine gun effect of letting the motor rip off 8-10 frames a second, sounds cool, but a hell of a waste of film. <SNIP> Ted, I remember this fight from the 1960s, when motor drives first appeared. Those in the know felt as you do. And I think I remember someone doing a study of the machinegun approach, showing that the peak of action was no where in any of the frames. As a disclamer, I was never worth a damn at sports photography, and developed a real dislike of basketball after being forced to shoot it in dark high school gyms, midcourt and without flash. I also had this wierd idea that the main use for motor drives was taking pictures with a camera that was located other than where you were. And to get back to the original premise, I find the auto everything digital cameras frustrating, waiting for them to do all their things, including a 3-4 sec burst of strobe light before making the exposure. Maybe ok for landscapes, and family group shots, but not much else. ============================================================================ Ken Firestone, W3CAT | For every problem there is one solution kenf@speakeasy.net | which is simple, neat, and wrong. ken@firestone.net | -- H. L. Mencken ============================================================================ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html