I don't think that's entirely true. This is a leveler. There's a
saying supposedly from the Old West, God created Men, Sam Colt made them
equal. In a fight with clubs the bigger heavier opponent has an
advantage in a fight with guns, a lot of that advantage goes away.
Let me tell a story, a few years ago, I visited some friends in Florida,
and we had a day trip to a baseball spring training camp. The nice
thing about spring training is that you get to see actual pros in a park
with less strictures than AA ball, and for my purposes at least, the
pitcher wasn't trying quite so hard to keep the batter from actually
getting a hit.
I planted myself on the sidelines pretty much just off the third base
line, and shot few rolls of B&W trying to get the moment when the batter
connected with the ball. I kind of know baseball, used to watch a lot
of AAA games, so I know at close range what to look for when the batter
is actually going to take a swing.
I'm not a award winning sports photographer, but out of my four rolls or
so of film I managed to get one shot where the batter connected, and a
couple just after. (damn, I really wish I knew where the negatives got
to at this point).
I was shooting with an LX and the power winder and 300mm f4.0. I got
three almost shots and one good one out of four rolls of film. All I
had to do was hit the shutter button when the batter started to move.
With the Sony I'd have gotten pretty much all of them closer than my
three misses.
On 4/20/2017 3:21 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> wrote:
If the photog doesn’t exercise some judgment, just guns away, all that has
happened is that the
burden of finding the decisive moment has moved from the field to the editor’s
desk. The technology
may be a game changer, but getting “the” shot may still be a rarity.
Moreover, this kind of technology will do nothing at all to reduce the
gap between the work of a talented pro and an unskilled amateur.
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