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I wander around my home city of Glasgow a fair bit. I always have either my Leica M Monochrom mk1, or an analogue M loaded with black and white film with me. I think that finding interesting photograp

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This is a one of a series of exposures that I made from this spot at a Thai Restaurant on Main Street Vancouver BC.

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Wandering in Syracuse...

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Given the write speed of the MM1, this is not a scene that one can spray and pray.  Also given the delay in the shutter release, one has to really know the camera in order to make this photograph.  1/125 earlier or later would not have had the same impact.  Well done, Colin.  Sharp eye, great composition.

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Given the write speed of the MM1, this is not a scene that one can spray and pray.  Also given the delay in the shutter release, one has to really know the camera in order to make this photograph.  1/125 earlier or later would not have had the same impact.  Well done, Colin.  Sharp eye, great composition.

That's very kind, Tim - thank you. Yes, I only got that one frame of that guy. I've found that, even with a camera that can do ten or 12 frames a second, if you just hold the button down, you can still miss something between the frames, especially with sport. Although I think there are cameras now that will do a lot more frames per second than that, so it's probably harder than ever to miss

 

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That's very kind, Tim - thank you. Yes, I only got that one frame of that guy. I've found that, even with a camera that can do ten or 12 frames a second, if you just hold the button down, you can still miss something between the frames, especially with sport. Although I think there are cameras now that will do a lot more frames per second than that, so it's probably harder than ever to miss

 

That's one of many things I love about "Henri."  Before motor winders or drives, great eye-finger coordination along with good anticipation and knowledge of shutter lag were much more important.  I seldom put a camera on continuous mode, still preferring to make one frame at a time.  I ran into these young women a couple of years ago in Seattle.  I stopped them, talked a little and asked if I could take their picture.  They were posing, which is not what I wanted, so I starting asking them about themselves but they remained rather posed.  So, being Seattle and looking at the sweatshirt, I asked them if they were lovers.  They both loudly said, "NO!" and started cracking up.  That's when I released the shutter on what I wanted.

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That's one of many things I love about "Henri."  Before motor winders or drives, great eye-finger coordination along with good anticipation and knowledge of shutter lag were much more important.  I seldom put a camera on continuous mode, still preferring to make one frame at a time.  I ran into these young women a couple of years ago in Seattle.  I stopped them, talked a little and asked if I could take their picture.  They were posing, which is not what I wanted, so I starting asking them about themselves but they remained rather posed.  So, being Seattle and looking at the sweatshirt, I asked them if they were lovers.  They both loudly said, "NO!" and started cracking up.  That's when I released the shutter on what I wanted.

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What a great shot, Tim! That's the frame - no point taking any more once you've got that one. Yes, one frame at a time, and really choose your moment. You've got no choice with an M9 or M9Mono anyway because it can only do something like two frames per second, and it swiftly hits the buffer. And agree that there is a fractional lag when you press the button, so you almost need to press it momentarily before the moment. Satisfying when it all comes together.

I still cover the occasional football match. I have no great interest in football, but I've been doing it for 25 years now. So I've got a feel for how to photograph it. The newspaper only wants one of two things - either the goal being scored, or the celebrations of the players afterwards. And any other drama which might occur. Ideally they want all of that. 

I shoot a Canon EOS 1DX with a 300mm 2.8 lens for football. It's a fantastic all-round press camera. No job really it can't do, and it excels at sport. I think it does 12 frames per second at the highest frame rate. But if you just hold down the button at crucial moments, you can STILL miss the moment between frames. I just press the button in very short bursts, and I try to make the first of those frames really count. I still look for that definitive moment before I'm pressing the button. The frames that come after are really just an insurance policy. The biggest memory card I have is 8GB, and I've had it for ten years.

But I sometimes notice other photographers at the same game, especially the younger ones, and their cameras are going like machine guns for most of the game. I wonder if they're seeing a different football match to the one I see. You get memory cards now with insane amounts of capacity. It's crazy. I can't imagine who could be bothered to look through thousands of pictures afterwards, to pick out the dozen or so that you need. Us older guys just shake our heads.

I'm pretty sure the new Sony press cameras can go at 20+ frames per second. That's movie camera territory. The 'pray' part of spray and pray is almost gone. Spray and definitely get the shot. It's a completely different style of photography and, dare I say it, has slightly de-skilled the job. But then, I'm sure photographers were moaning about the same thing when the zoom lens was invented, or the Speed-Graphic became obsolete.

 

 

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