Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html