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Re: Motor Drives

Re: Motor Drives

2003-11-29 by Jerry in Houston

Maybe I have just become lazy in my old age, but I have found I like a motor drive... not for trying to follow fast action as one might think, but because I feel it allows me to focus my attention on what I am photographing without having to remember to manually advance the film, often taking my eye from the finder, after each shutter release.  I find it enhances my creative thinking... YMMV.  I have used it for auto racing pics, but have not felt it was a necessity as I think I know where the action is..... except maybe in NASCAR or F1 where a crash sequence might be the object.
 
Jerry in Houston

<<C J Morgan writes:

> But in practice, we don't always know when the best
> "decisive moment" is going to be. We might be able
> to narrow it down to within a few second just before
> we start shooting. But we can't always predict which
> very specific moment is going to be the absolute 
best.>>



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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Motor Drives

2003-11-29 by Tom Baker

Although I don't shoot any serious 35mm anymore, I have used a motor drive ever since they were available.  And, for the same reasons you note, one less thing to worry about.
 
Tom Baker

Jerry in Houston <glewis4457@...> wrote:

Maybe I have just become lazy in my old age, but I have found I like a motor drive... not for trying to follow fast action as one might think, but because I feel it allows me to focus my attention on what I am photographing without having to remember to manually advance the film, often taking my eye from the finder, after each shutter release.  I find it enhances my creative thinking... YMMV.  I have used it for auto racing pics, but have not felt it was a necessity as I think I know where the action is..... except maybe in NASCAR or F1 where a crash sequence might be the object.

Jerry in Houston

<<C J Morgan writes:

> But in practice, we don't always know when the best
> "decisive moment" is going to be. We might be able
> to narrow it down to within a few second just before
> we start shooting. But we can't always predict which
> very specific moment is going to be the absolute 
best.>>



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