[Leica] Hyperfocal distance

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)]

But then you could not turn the R8 off.? -------------- Original message 
from "H. Ball Arche" <h_arche at yahoo.com>: --------------


> 
> I'd suggest a dollop of epoxy. It's sandable.
> 
> --- On Thu, 4/9/09, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net  
> wrote:
> 
> > From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net 
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Hyperfocal distance
> > To: lug at leica-users.org
> > Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009, 11:28 AM
> > Sonny Carter wrote:
> > 
> > >>>
> > We have never been able to domesticate auto-focus.  It does
> > what it wants to
> > most of the time.
> > <<<
> > 
> > I'm still seething from my latest brush with camera
> > automation.  It's one
> > of those stories about the one(s) that got away: how I
> > spent an hour
> > paddling to the location, finding my subject and having the
> > incredibly good
> > fortune of having the loon eating a fish within 20' of
> > the kayak in good
> > light for at least a minute with flat water (stable kayak)
> > and a perfect
> > reflection in the water, and making several exposures while
> > failing to
> > notice the camera's mode switch had been bumped to (a)
> > instead of where I
> > thought I had left it, (m).  Maybe I made up the part about
> > the fish but
> > everything else is true.
> > 
> > Result: badly clipped highlights.  F*** automation, f***
> > the
> > does-it-all-if-you-can-set-the-switches-and-modes-right
> > design mentality. 
> > I want a digital SL with DMR image quality: an awesome
> > viewfinder, RAW
> > only, manual exposure only and (obviously) manual focus
> > only; a histogram
> > for review.  I'd rather concentrate on light &
> > subject than modes, meter
> > patterns, algorithms and overrides, especially when I also
> > have to pay
> > attention to wind, current, yaw, wakes and whether the
> > paddle is falling
> > overboard.  I had to restrain myself from pitching the
> > thing into the lake.
> > The f***ing mode switch is getting a healthy dose of
> > gaffer's tape.
> > 
> > Doug Herr
> > Birdman of Sacramento
> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> > 
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