At 11:58 AM 12/8/2007, gerald wrote: >watch out tom, new technology roaring down the road. >you still using that canon FDt from 1970 or do you have a pre war (II) leica >rangefinder?
Leica rangefinder was great. Would that it were alive today but with a digital sensor. Focusing was sure and as fast as you could twist your wrist or the finger knob. A seasoned photographer could guess the exposure "good enough". And the shutter lag was close enough to zero. No missed shots because the subject moved (was moving) when you pressed the button. Manual focus on today's cameras is still motorized (slow) and doesn't have any fine adjustment. The merest tap on the manual focusing control (and the zoom control as well) moves the adjustment a considerable distance, often too far. I have pictures on Kodachrome / Ektachrome that I took in the 1940's and early 50's that I could never take with today's cameras. Or perhaps only with the most expensive ones, which I haven't bought. I never had a Leica, but the good old Argus C-3 did well enough. It was a rangefinder camera, and fairly small and light, although not a "pocket" camera. Fred Holmes ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
