Cory,
Thanks for this post. It brought a smile to my lips.
I guess I luck out in that I often use manual focus lenses on my *ist D
- the M 20mm and the A 15mm to get wide enough field of view, to name a
couple.
When I went shot my LX yesterday I did recall that 'how many exposures
left' feeling. I don't get this when shooting the 645 or 67 though - a
different way of shooting. Before I got an 8GB card I often checked
remaining shots on the card. Of course it was harder to figure out how
many shots I truly had left - unlike film.
I am sure you did look cool though ;-)
César
Panama City, Florida
Cory Waters wrote:
I have some tri-x in my MX. It's been there for a long time. There's
another roll in the fridge. I've been meaning to shoot these for a
while but the digital is just too damn easy.
Yesterday I decided that I would take the MX and a couple lenses with
me to the 2 mile road race my Emily was running (why are these things
so early in the morning? Isn't the road there later?) I brought a
50mm and Doug Franklin's 400mm (Doug, I do still have this :)) Nothing
really moved me to trip the shutter before the start. I was a little
worried about not having enough frames. Film had that weird 12 or 24
or 36 shot limit, remember? I wanted to get the start and the finish
plus a shot of Emily as she re-emerged from up the road.
The start: 50mm. She's in a pack and I lost her until she would have
been too small in the un-cropped frame to pick out. Manual
focus...Didn't even fire once.
Re-emergence: There she is, she's alone, shot framed, 400mm
pre-focused and stopped down enough for some DOF. Shutter hangs open.
Battery? crap. what's going on? shutter returns but now I need to
displace and change lenses, now...
The finish: I'm not in a good position at all. She's running by. I
got one shot off with the 50 focused at infinity. It's certainty over
exposed and not framed worth a crap.
Digital + Zoom + autofocus + auto exposure have allowed me to be a
crap photographer. I certainly LOOKED cool though with my black MX,
black mono pod and huge black lens. I bet the guy next to me with his
>$100 flip camera got a decent HD video of HIS kid running up the hill
to the finish though...
Woe is me :)
CW
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