[Leica] baseball shoot! :-) Leica and digital working like a dream!

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

Ted Grant wrote:
> Steve Barbour resonded to:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] baseball shoot! :-) Leica and digital working like 
> a dream!
> 
> 
>> Ted Grant wrote:
>>
>>> Actually the results made me feel a tad better, now if I get a good 
>>> nights sleep I might just be vertical and breathing in the morning. 
>>> ;-) If not, it's hasta la vista baby! ;-) Nice knowing you all! :-)
>>>
>>> good night,
>>> ted
> 
> 
> Steve said:
> 
>> sleep well Ted... feel better in the morning....<
> 
> 
> Howdy Steve,
> Good morning good doctor, thanks for the advice! :-) And surprise, 
> surprise I made another night, it worked.
> 
> Well OK I feel some better but I'm sure a month lying on the beach in 
> Hawaii or some other location with warm beaches, water and semi-clad 
> females would really do wonders for my aches, pains and without 
> question, use of my Leica's, long lenses and 20D! ;-)
> 
> Now if you'd write a prescription for some R&R in just such a location I 
> can run it by she who must be obeyed and tell her..."Doctor Steve gave 
> this as medical advice!" ;-) Oh yeah I forgot you know her and yes I 
> agree, she probably would tell you and I just what to do with a 
> prescription of that sort. ;-)
> 
> And those big colour prints I made last evening shot with the 20D and 
> Leica 80-200 f4.0 on a Epson 2200 while shooting baseball yesterday?
> 
> They sure look beautiful in daylight! :-) Even the action looks better! 
> So I guess I haven't lost my re-action to action touch at shooting 
> sports. ;-)
> 
> And yes I still feel, even more so, I will not use film to shoot sports 
> of any kind in the future. It's quite simple really, the photos look 
> much better, have a quality and look film through R8's and the same lens 
> just doesn't cut it! I am looking forward to photography through a 400mm 
> shortly covering the same subject and 20D.
> 
> You see I waited a long time for the R8's as I needed 3 of them in how I 
> work. Another 3 years for the motor drive. And I wouldn't trade them for 
> the world.  However, like many others, I've waited for Leica to get off 
> their collective asses to produce the R8-9 digi back. As unfortunate as 
> it is for them it seems "Mr. Canon has blown them out of the water, 
> period!"
> 
> Certainly now that I can use any Leica lens I own on the 20D and produce 
> prints that blow people away when they see the printed photography.
> 
> Thanks again for the advice. A few more take it easy days and I'll be 
> back to regular form. :-)
> ted

Rx...come down here and enjoy the nice 
weather... high today... 78 deg F.  , 
   but it won't last too long...


bring your Leicanons...

:-)


glad you feel better Ted...

Steve