Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Lag misunderstanding
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:02:02 -0700
References: <BB5ACC8B.2B761%mlquinn.mail@earthlink.net> <3F36424E.36A677E3@sympatico.ca>

frank theriault wrote:
> 
> Of course it's ~not~ denial.  Any idiot knows that there's a delay from the time
> that one presses the shutter release, to the time that the shutter deploys.
> 
> I'm simply saying that the numbers are meaningless ~to me~.  Milliseconds are so
> small as to be abstract.  I know what a cameras lag time is by using it, and
> feeling it.
> 
> But, if someone says that a certain camera has a lag time of 50 milliseconds,
> that doesn't mean a thing.  More to the point, if someone says that another
> camera has a lag time of 55 milliseconds, I'd submit that the difference in
> those two times is so small as to be meaningless in the real world.
> 
> But do lag times exist?  Of course.  Do they mean something to some people?
> Obviously, otherwise, we wouldn't have this thread.
> 
> cheers,
> frank
> 
> Mike Quinn wrote:
> 
><Snip> 

Have any of you guys brought the idea that the lag one typically gets
from an SLR one anticipates and like trowing a football screen pass you
aim a ahead a little. Or like Skeet shooting I think.
We are not missing the moment we want by a half of a seond with every shot.
Becuae we have learved to lead it. Thats the word! "Lead".  Take me to
your Lead-time!

Some of my best moments I've captured on my Hasselblads and on those
cameras a dozen different things have to happen after you press the
shutter button and the shutter in the lens opens and closes. It's like a
modern day point in shoot in that respect.
Which reminds me. I used to have a column in the local paper which i
illustrated with my photographs; that I'd taken with my cameras mainly
my Nikons. But one week, the first week of the year i shoot it with a
Fuji something or other which my wife got under the Christmas/Holiday
tree. It has a huge lag it really had to be 3 whole seconds and that was
without the pre flash thing which reminds the subject to blink when you
take the picture. Or close their eyes. Anyways I got the hang of this
thing in less than half a roll. I just lead the ball about ten years
ahead!  What's that up in the road? Ahead!!?


Mark Rabiner
Portland, Oregon USA
http://www.rabinergroup.com
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