Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/01/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]thank you dear poet Philippe.... > Ted,, dear Uncle Ted :-) > > we don't want no more wars > we don't want no more Chernobyls > we don't want no more Israel crushing Arabic states or people > > and this, thanks to guys just like you who took risks so that we'd know. > > I guess we now just want to shoot photos as we can, with the gear we have > presumably, or are dreaming of probably too. > > Oh yes young lad, what you've done wrong. > > Well, your mistake may have been , ..., > > buying an M8 crop camera? > > ;-) > > Nope, definitely not ! > > It wonderfully serves its purposes, whatever the crop factor may be :-) :-) > > > Amities aka fond regards > > Philippe, a kid at any age but who knows he wouldn't want another Ronald > BTW ;-) > > > > > Le 4 janv. 15 ? 17:58, Ted Grant a ?crit : > >> Good morning CREW, >> I haven't paid any attention to these posts about "crop factor" only >> because >> it was never in my photon vocabulary for 65 plus years from start to now >> near finished! >> >> So I thought,"Well these guys know all about this stuff. "MAYBE I CAN >> LEARN >> SOMETHING I DIDN'T HAVE A PHOTO CLUE ABOUT?" So I've been reading them? I >> still don't have a CLUE WHAT THE HELL IT HAS TO DO WITH THE MAGIC MOMENT >> CAPTURED @ 1/1000 of a sec?" Or the runner winning the 100 meter Olympic >> Gold medal Race? >> >> I have 5 cameras hanging about shoulders and neck all different size >> lenses >> for the immediate moment required? "SEE SHOOT MERELY BY GRABBING PROPER >> CAMERA BY INSTINCT...... "CLICK!" Image captured move on to next exciting >> moment without an eye blink about what lens?????? WHY? >> >> ONCE AGAIN! It's the content and grabbing the camera with the right lens >> is >> all that matters! "DON'T THINK OR IT'S OVER!" >> >> It appears again that this kind of " CROP FACTOR" stuff must really mean >> something major to the "ROCK & FERN FOLKS?" Real-life shooters??? >> "NADA!" >> Besides if you don't know anything about it? It "ain't goin' to hurt you!" >> :-) >> >> Cause in Two Wars, a helicopter crash at 50 below zero, very bad landings >> in >> ski equipped Otter aircraft. When taking pictures of President Ronald >> Reagan. Oh yeah President Kennedy, Her Majesty Queen of England, And one >> of >> the most beautiful photos of Jacquie Kennedy ever????? >> >> "This "CROP FACTOR GOBBELDY-GOOK" STUFF NEVER MATTERED? Or I don't think >> so? >> Because it was never in a mind thought ! Hell I didn't even know it >> existed? >> >> So in plain understandable English language would, please "one person?" >> Not >> with 33 e-mails (thank you) explain to me what I've done wrong for 65 >> years >> and possibly I can correct the errors of my photographic ways? Thank you >> very much. >> >> Any other "ERRORS OF MY WAYS?????????" You are free to use your >> imaginations >> on that one. >> HOWEVER? NOBODY HAS THE ANSWERS TO FIX THOSE! :-) :-) I suppose I might >> say >> "You really don't want to know?" Mischievous devil wouldn't you say? >> ;-) >> :-) >> Thank you most kindly. >> cheers, >> Dr. ted :-) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to > the eye. Antoine de Saint Exup?ry in Le Petit Prince. > NO ARCHIVE > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information