[Leica] Obama gf-1 now with PHOTOS!

[jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)]

Yikes! Those are seriously good!

Jeffery
On Apr 22, 2010, at 9:45 PM, Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> 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
> 
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