ErichF Posted September 25, 2011 Share #1 Posted September 25, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Some of my high-speed-shots with Leica M8 and M9, Canada-Summicron 2/90mm and Canada-Elmarit 2,8/135mm. It needs some time, to watch the people and the bird, that I not got "empty tickets". But I only want to need my eyes and my finger and no other tools to get the pictures. Leica M ist for the most Situations fast enough, if we are too. Peregrine Falcon "Lisa" 1. M9 + 90mm [ATTACH]279933[/ATTACH] 2. M9 + 2,8/135mm [ATTACH]279934[/ATTACH] 3. M9 + 2,8/135mm [ATTACH]279935[/ATTACH] 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ErichF Posted September 25, 2011 Author Share #2 Posted September 25, 2011 Longbow 4. M8 + 2,0/50mm [ATTACH]279936[/ATTACH] 5. M8 + 2,0/50mm [ATTACH]279937[/ATTACH] Crossbvow 6. M9 + 2/90mm [ATTACH][/ATTACH] 7. M9 + 2/90mm [ATTACH]279939[/ATTACH] 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErichF Posted September 25, 2011 Author Share #3 Posted September 25, 2011 Skeet 8. M9 + 2,8/135mm [ATTACH]279941[/ATTACH] 9. M9 + 2,8/135mm [ATTACH]279942[/ATTACH] 12 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coach Posted September 26, 2011 Share #4 Posted September 26, 2011 Hi Erich, Really good timing for all your shots, but the last one is really fantastic in focus and time ! How many try to get these ? congratulations Gerard 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Henry Posted September 26, 2011 Share #5 Posted September 26, 2011 Hi Erich, Great job ! really impressive with tripod or monopod ? Thanks for sharing Best Henry 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Allsopp Posted September 26, 2011 Share #6 Posted September 26, 2011 The last is exceptional. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted September 26, 2011 Share #7 Posted September 26, 2011 Advertisement (gone after registration) Erich - Astonishing timing on them all, epsecially of the clay pigeons. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErichF Posted September 26, 2011 Author Share #8 Posted September 26, 2011 (edited) Oh, thank you all. I tried about 3 years, to find out the best equipment to make pictures from things in high velocity. In some cases it is possible to work with tripods, but in the most cases I must move the camera. Therefore in all my pics I made it free hand. Then it is nessesary to have the shutter shorter than 1/100 second, let me say it in milliseconds, in less than 10 ms. And, I had problems with 100% SLR, I always got the target to late to see. Therefore I took the viewfinder with smaller areas, I saw the target before it war in the picture. And I could open both eyes, this ist important. And, as well, I want to make a "fair" one-shot and no high-speed-cam with about more than 1000 p/sec. In that case the quality is very poor, I had with a crop to 25% in M9 4.5 MP in the picture. The pics with the falcon I could track the target and I saw this coming into the sharp area, therefore where shutter-times till down to 1 ms no problem. In case of the longbows and crossbows it is possible to need tripod or monopods, but I don't love any pods with Leica-M-Cams. I belive, these are Cams for freehand and nothing else. Ant this is extremly important for the skeet-shootings. You must find the clay pigeon in viewfinder before it is shot, any you haved a minimal time window of abaut 1 (one!!) millisecond to open your shutter. It's not possible to think a little bit, you must start shutter opening before the hunter will shoot. That's the - only - little problem for you. Yes, o.k. I took a time of about 3 hours and more than 200 pics. But there where "greenhorn"-hunters of my Round-Table-Service-Club, (I am founder and member of RT 74 Hanau since 1971), only 10% where o.k. Edited September 26, 2011 by ErichF 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pauledell Posted September 26, 2011 Share #9 Posted September 26, 2011 Eric, Astounding pictures and techniques. You have worked very hard to develop the knack of photographing this type of action. Paul 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl-Albert Posted September 26, 2011 Share #10 Posted September 26, 2011 super ! and thank you for the explanations above on how to make ... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErichF Posted September 26, 2011 Author Share #11 Posted September 26, 2011 Thank you all again. For the timing of skeet-shooting a little calculation. The pellets left the gun with about 390 m/s, means supersonic. The pigeon flies in a distance between 15 and 30 meters and with a speed of nearly 30 m/s. If the pellets reach the target, they has a speed of 300-350 m/s, the diameter of the cloud of pellets is about 300-500 mm. From the first pellet to the last it needs about 1 ms and this is the time in which the target can be destroyed. In this moment the shutter has to be open, if you want your picture . I took 1/250 s or 4 ms and the aperture of about 8-11. In best case you can see the short way of the parts of the damaged target. Means you has about one millisecond to make a proper photo . Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErichF Posted September 26, 2011 Author Share #12 Posted September 26, 2011 And this picture shows the wave of pellets and the gideon some milliseconds before damaging (it needs only 2 or 3 pellets). On the right are 2 leafes. [ATTACH]280123[/ATTACH] 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveleo Posted September 26, 2011 Share #13 Posted September 26, 2011 Yikes ! I LOVE these (and I envy your fast reflexes). Very very nice ! ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
muellerman779 Posted January 24, 2012 Share #14 Posted January 24, 2012 Hi Erich, ich sehe Deine Highspeed Shots gerade eben erst. Bin über Deinen Beitrag im Thrad "Nicht Leica" über das hier gestolpert: Beeindruckend, klasse gemacht, starke Perspektiven und (zum großen Teil) erstklassige Schärfe und Kontrastwiedergabe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
beramos Posted January 27, 2012 Share #15 Posted January 27, 2012 Erich, simply "EXTRAORDINARY WORK". Congratulations. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bateleur Posted January 30, 2012 Share #16 Posted January 30, 2012 Erich, I missed these previously and am glad I caught up with this most engaging thread and particularly the fabulous photographs, especially the falcons. Regards Charles Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted February 8, 2012 Share #17 Posted February 8, 2012 These are really impressive. Thanks for showing what can be done with an M, determination and a lot of practice Carl Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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