Hello John, So an interesting follow on question is: Obviously practice is critical to your timing. Do you find, given practice, that some bodies do much better for you than others? If so, which ones? Seems that there are two different issues at play - one is shutter lag and the other is how fast the camera is ready for another shot. I'm not sure if the second is nearly as important for a timing shot. I'm sure it is important for follow on action, but not for a single timing shot.
Care to elaborate? -- Best regards, Bruce Monday, June 6, 2005, 10:35:43 AM, you wrote: JF> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 06:48:34PM +0200, DagT wrote: >> >> A good and prepared photographer can react in 1/10 second. JF> If you're prepared, and the action is predictable, you can JF> do a great deal better than that. JF> As most here know, I spend quite some time photographing JF> cars travelling at a high rate of speed. The most extreme JF> case of this is at the super speedways, where cars get up JF> to speeds of 240mph - that's 352 feet/second. If I could JF> only rely on 1/10 second accuracy, I'd never be able to get JF> a shot with a car crossing the field of view of a fixed JF> camera - in 1/10 of a second the car travels twice its own JF> length. But I have managed to get shots like that; in fact JF> I can (with a little practice) get the car within five feet JF> of perfect positioning. That's a ten-foot window, which JF> means I'm achiving closer to 1/30 of a second precision.
