Did you mean "holding down the shutter release" continuously to achieve
9 frames a second. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 5/24/2011 5:29 PM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> I chuckled when I read this 'cause there's a nice case for nostalgia
> and some food for thought about technology there, and then we learn
> the message was sent from an iPhone.<g>
>
> Perhaps the whole "decisive moment" thing is a bit overdone these
> days simply because you can practically shoot video and then examine
> frame by frame for the moment you want. The old timers who shot
> sports with Speed Graphics got the decisive moments because those are
> the pictures we have. I'm sure any one of them would have given an
> arm and a leg to be able to fire off nine frames a second.<g>
>
> Still, as I was showing the woman who bought my field camera how it
> worked, I didt wax a little nostalgic myself for those days when a
> morning of heavy shooting meant I took ten sheets of film with me. As
> I recall, they were about two bucks a pop for the film, and two bucks
> a pop for the processing. Now, even though the D3 cost me a lot of
> pops, I can shoot insane numbers of exposures. But I still like to
> think that the discipline of using the 4x5 has made me more
> thoughtful about holding down the shutter release.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On May 24, 2011, at 3:07 PM, John Lind wrote:
>
>> How quickly we forget the days of yore with the likes of One-Shot
>> Charlie (Charles Hoff NY Daily News) who did sports action photos
>> using *large* format view cameras
>> (http://www.anian.net/charlie/oneshot.html) or of Cartier-Bresson,
>> or Robert Capa and the other founders of Magnum Photo who knew how
>> to get the "Decisive Moment" in a single frame using completely
>> manual RF cameras. Their techniques are rapidly becoming a "lost
>> art" which is truly sad. -- John
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>
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