Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's picking a movie frame out of a movie. And as Leica started in the 1920's out with using movie film in a still camera its oddly on topic but a bit of a stretch.. Mark William Rabiner > From: Seth Rosner <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:08:59 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon 800mm IS > > Ah, Seth the retard! I didn't know what a burst mode is, thought perhaps it > was what happened when a large person tries to get into inadequately sized > but modish garment. Thanks to you Mark, I've figured it out. It's like a > light transmitting or rather a light receiving scatter gun that depends on > chance rather than skill to capture an accidental image. Modern photography > is becoming much clearer to me. > > Still bemused or bewildered or both. > > Seth > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 4:56 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon 800mm IS > > >> The whole concept behind the burst mode is the make the processs of >> photography even more mindless than it already is taking more control away >> from the photographer and putting it into the post processing people. >> The art director can feel is if she's the one there taking the pictures in >> the first place. As she's picking the precise part of the moose chew. >> >> Had this been a shoot in which the photographer shot all day but turned in >> some choice frames (as is usual) this would never have happened. >> >> The photographer would have turned in one which they had not missed their >> focus. >> You let them pick them and they don't always know. >> Don't always have time to find their loupe. >> >> But this is not capturing the moment. >> The moment is capturing YOU. >> >> The Decisive Mastication! >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >>> From: Richard Man <richard.lists@gmail.com> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:19:24 -0800 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon 800mm IS >>> >>> Oh man, if it looks bad on the web sized JPG, forget about the full size >>> ones.... >>> >>> ...but hey, you cna see the moose drinking. How cool is that from a $3K >>> DSLR. Do such a better job than the $200 digicam!!! (yes, I am being >>> sarcastic...) >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:39 AM, wildlightphoto@earthlink.net < >>> wildlightphoto@earthlink.net> wrote: >>> >>>> I saw this link posted on another list: >>>> >>>> http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2526 >>>> >>>> promoting the Canon 50D and EF 800mm f/5.6 IS >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com >>> // b: http://rfman.wordpress.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.0/1865 - Release Date: 12/26/2008 > 1:01 PM > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information