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Another shot from the weekend. Modern cameras and lenses are amazing these days. Can you imagine taking this shot with a Hasselblad/Rollie/Mamiya/Nikon and manual focus? That was the kit I used in my working days as a photographer! This was shot at 4000 ISO, selected by the camera, Tri X and Promicrol just wouldn't cut it!
Mind you I can't let the camera take all the credit, I had to point the camera in the general direction of the bird and press two - yes two buttons. One told the camera to focus on the birds eye and the other to command it (leadership skills in action} to take a gazillion shots. Processing was done by some clever software, not a darkroom in site, oh how I miss the smell of fixer on my hands!
If you understood all of the first sentence your older than you admit to!
RK (346 of 357)-Edit-Edit-Edit.jpg by Gordon Ford, on Flickr
 
You will have to open a pot of fixer and have it just in front of you + turn your lights off and wear dark glasses when editing you shots just for full affect. You could also try gaffer taping a brick to you camera for max affect. Very nice shot by the way but lets see it bigger .;)
 
O.k just realized it's on Flickr !!
 
Fordsabroad said:
Another shot from the weekend. Modern cameras and lenses are amazing these days. Can you imagine taking this shot with a Hasselblad/Rollie/Mamiya/Nikon and manual focus? That was the kit I used in my working days as a photographer! This was shot at 4000 ISO, selected by the camera, Tri X and Promicrol just wouldn't cut it!
Mind you I can't let the camera take all the credit, I had to point the camera in the general direction of the bird and press two - yes two buttons. One told the camera to focus on the birds eye and the other to command it (leadership skills in action} to take a gazillion shots. Processing was done by some clever software, not a darkroom in site, oh how I miss the smell of fixer on my hands!
If you understood all of the first sentence your older than you admit to!
RK (346 of 357)-Edit-Edit-Edit.jpg by Gordon Ford, on Flickr
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I had the R6 on test drive and said exactly the same, taking a series of 10 action shots, with MF I’d have hoped one was pin sharp, with my previous AF I’d have expected the majority to be pin sharp, and hoped that my favourite expression was one of the sharp ones, with the R6 it’s almost impossible to get an OoF shot.

Oh and cool shot, no matter how much the camera loaded luck in your favour.
 
Fordsabroad said:
Another shot from the weekend. Modern cameras and lenses are amazing these days. Can you imagine taking this shot with a Hasselblad/Rollie/Mamiya/Nikon and manual focus? That was the kit I used in my working days as a photographer! This was shot at 4000 ISO, selected by the camera, Tri X and Promicrol just wouldn't cut it!
Mind you I can't let the camera take all the credit, I had to point the camera in the general direction of the bird and press two - yes two buttons. One told the camera to focus on the birds eye and the other to command it (leadership skills in action} to take a gazillion shots. Processing was done by some clever software, not a darkroom in site, oh how I miss the smell of fixer on my hands!
If you understood all of the first sentence your older than you admit to!
RK (346 of 357)-Edit-Edit-Edit.jpg by Gordon Ford, on Flickr
Click to expand...
No comparison with today's equipment, but we used to get quite respectable success rates with our Exaktas and Leicaflexes with Novoflex Follow-Focus and sliding focus tubes. And, of course, you still had to be in the right place at the right time, so nothing's changed there. Sure burned up a lot of film before getting any noticeable improvements, though!
 
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