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This news assignment popped up out of nowhere Thursday. All shot with the M8 - 135 Tele-Elmar, 28 f/2.8, 21 f/2.8, ISO 1250 or 640. Manual exposure for the stage shots of Pickens to prevent the black background from dragging down the shutter speed. New West summit: photo gallery - Rocky Mountain Independent [Edit: BTW, I just discovered you can see the pix in an even bigger slide show by clicking in the image area - hah! Pays to know your own web site!] Some observations: This was the first time I felt a bit nervous about the noise of my M8's original shutter. Modern SLRs, with no film to pull, and that big body to act as a "blimp", have gotten remarkably quiet. I noticed Redford's eyes flicking towards me a couple of times as I shot. Of course, he's been around, and probably knows how a Leica M is "supposed" to sound...it may have been surprise rather than the absolute decibels. I hope the quiet shutter is standard in the M9. The 135's resolution saved my butt, as usual. Easy to crop to 300-400mm field of view (even at ISO 1250, slightly pushed). Who'd have thought, in 1964, that this lens would be shooting digital news - and excelling - in 2009? The tight shot of Redford and New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall is IR-contaminated - I'm short a 39mm IR filter and forgot to swap one over from my 50 for the first few frames of the "press availability". The tightest Pickens headshot is 135, ISO 1250 (but really exposed at close to 2500 and pushed a bit in ACR, to avoid camera shake). Cropped to about 400mm framing. I did need to bracket my focusing a bit with the 135 to be sure I got a sharp frame - just tweaking the ring left and right a breath between shots once I'd put the RF images together. I've changed my mind about RAW for breaking-news photojournalism - with a combined sorting and processing program like Bridge/ACR or Lightroom or whatever, it is trivially easy to get a RAW image uploaded as jpg in less than 3-4 minutes. No need to shoot jpgs unless you are wifi-ing a picture direct from a cellphone. (Or, I'll grant, from the sidelines at an NFL game.)
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