[Leica] DXO Mark Leica M10 Score

[rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler)]

Great information Ted! And your exciting career is almost too much for this
boring accountant to fathom. ;-)
Thank you for sharing not only your method, but what you went through
learning and practicing it. 1 sec hand held? Sheesh, I've never done better
than 1/15th... and neither of us are getting any younger.

As a well used saying goes on this LUG, "WELL DONE LAD!"
and thanks again Ted.

Best,
Bob


Bob Adler
www.robertadlerphotography.com
*"Capturing Light One Frame At A Time"*

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
> A couple of my quick change M lens tricks!
> In many cases where I was using a photo vest. Lot's of pockets was very
> handy.
> Preparing the vest? Or jacket??
> 1/ Thoroughly vacuum all pockets and pouches. MOST IMPORTANT EFFORT,
> absolutely healthy clean! WHY?
> Well yeah the Noctilux f1.0 is a tad heavy.:-)
> But that was the lens most used when shooting the documentary assignments
> in
> steel mills, automotive plants, mining and any other like locations. As
> they
> were all shot by available light...
> "IF YOU CAN SEE IT??? YOU CAN SHOOT IT!!" My idea! :-) Well of course if
> one
> is using Leica's. And obviously using a Noctilux or shooting near wide open
> many times?. :-)
> But in those days long ago, I could hand hold my M-Leica's even the Nocti
> mounted for 1 second and have on average, a 90% of the time sharp sharp
> images!
> It's reasonable when you're on assignments day after day, many of them 12
> or
> more hours a day in a steel mill shooting making steel start to finish.
> Building aircraft all kinds. Mining, Lobster fishing and other types both
> on
> the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
> Covering the Olympics, summer & winter along with many other
> internationally
> recognized sports events were always tough. Once I had an excellent hand
> for
> available light and shooting what you could see.
> All my published medical subject coffee table sized books are all shot
> available light and hundreds? Nay! Thousands upon thousands of slow shutter
> speeds under all kinds of medical conditions'. Birth to death!
> Many LUG CREW have purchased and can speak on their authenticity of picture
> quality. It's learning how to lock your body, holding your breath within a
> reasonable length of time.
> I very rarely broke 1 sec. exposures, in most cases it was, locking body
> and
> lungs and get a frame off. Oh sure I blew lots of them over the years, but
> my capture ratio was pretty well cool.
> Certainly "Nocti. f1 Cool!" :-)
> For me it was never an occupation! But year after
> year. Me, my LEICA's, assignments and it was the most fantastic "LOVE
> AFFAIR" one could ever have!
> Quite seriously, that's what my 60 plus years as an international
> travelling
> photojournalist was like day after day. You rarely knew where the next day
> might be? Let alone the next week or month may have your feet on the ground
> or sea somewhere on the planet? Or in a plane !
> LOADING PHOTO VEST CRUCIAL! or jacket.
> Once all pockets have been very thoroughly vacuumed, remove lens caps and
> "PLACE ONE LENS ONLY" in each pouch. The easier the better to grab a lens
> out and clicked onto camera.
> 1/ take lens off it goes directly into empty pouch. Reach in next pouch,
> grab new lens out of pouch. Then hold the lens to lock into body. That's a
> sort of routine where you develop your own switching style.
> BUT MOST IMPORTANT? 1 LENS ONLY IN POUCH and absolutely nothing else!
> MANDATORY! nothing, nothing and certainly "NO LENS CAPS ON!"
> WHY? Well your lens doesn't have lens caps on! So you wont be fiddling with
> caps and trying to hold and remove lens off camera & new lens onto camera!
> Now if you have more than two hands??????????
> Good on you!
> However? Having checked a couple of photog buddies, they only have two and
> when they attempted my no lens cap routine as explained,  they were very
> surprised at the quickness of lens to body routine without question. :-)
> However it is imperative in keeping your jacket pockets vacuumed, healthy
> and spotlessly clean!  If you let crap build? All you'll do is pass tiny
> bits of crap into the camera body each time your switching a lens. Or bits
> inside the lens mount!
> I have used this routine for years under all kinds of conditions.
> Today? Well that's a piece of cake whole brand new story as I now live in
> the most fantastic elders home where I read e-mails enjoying fantastic
> e-mail photos and the good fortune to still have a minor bit of mobility
> with my "walker!" As that allows me to scuffle about with my M8 at the
> sweet
> age of 88yrs. and a few lenses still having fun, documenting the lives of
> some 200 elders in the last years of our lifetimes.
> Yes it was a time for photojournalism by honest to goodness shooters who
> could and did make a reasonable wage. Today? That's for another day!
> But life moves on with a smile on yer face and a young ATTITUDE! Yeah I
> know
> it sounds great! :-)Some days it's really cool?
> "then?"
> "GET REAL OLD MAN!"
> cheers,
> Dr. Ted O.C.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of
> Robert Adler
> Sent: December-17-17 3:08 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] DXO Mark Leica M10 Score
>
> Well said Dr.!
> The right camera for that photographer. Whether it's one camera or 4, it
> doesn't matter.
> For you: the light M8 and a few lenses: perfect! (though that Nocti is no
> lightweight!)
> For me (I'm not 100 years old yet-sure hope to be some day if I have all my
> marbles like you!), so I really only have 2 "systems. A Leica for 35mm and
> an Alpa for 4x5ish (like your speed graphic, only too heavy to carry! back
> of car shooting, within about 700 meters).
> I do have a Sony body for my star pictures, but that's just a body, no Sony
> lenses. I use the 21mm f/3.4 (read: tiny) on it and that's it.
>
> Now if I could only change M lenses as fast as you; but you have a few
> years more practice than I ;-) Any advice???
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