Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i'll probably post more about the trip later, but i was on the press riser 60 feet back with my Leica d700 and an 80-200 2.8, a 300 2.8 and (optimistically) a fisheye. There were two guys standing next to me even MORE optimistic: one had a leica M7 with a 35 and 90mm lens and the other guy had a GF-1 with the 20mm f 1.7. They both spent a while just looking at the stage and sighing. There had been some confusion as to how close to the stage we were going to get. I planned for everything and, hence, have a bad back. They planned on being six feet away. (Which sometimes happens, search through the archives for the day I met Sal DiMarco at a Gore/Lieberman rally). After I was pretty sure I had "my shot" I put the GF-1 on the 300, which got results like this: http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/obama-gf1-1.jpg I found that it was REALLY FREAKING SLOW, like, as slow as a camera without an auto winder. Crikies, it was like using my M6 again. Compared to 4 frames a second (or 8 or 9 with the guys with the Leica D3's) it seemed an eternity so I went back to the D700, experiment completed. I loaned the guy with the GF-1 my nikon adapter and the 80-200 which made me feel much better, not so much because I was being helpful and generous, but because it meant I hadn't hauled all that extra gear for nothing. After things started to break up, I found the GF1 much more useful, with the 20, I was able to get in close and quiet. Like this shot of former NY Governor Mario Cuomo: http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2010/mc-gf1-1.jpg Larger update will probably follow. Hope you're all feeling swell. kc