>
> 5D II is good but no matter how good it is just a electronics device, I
> enjoy OM much more, the camera and lenses just like precision equipment.
>
Part of this, or maybe even all of it is just operational gestalt. I find
that when I'm shooting with the OM system I'm "anticipating" the shots,
whereas with the digital systems I'm "reacting" to the shots.
With the OM-3Ti, I have a constant awareness of the lighting and even though
I may not be shooting at the moment, I'm adjusting things like aperture or
focus in anticipation of a picture that may happen. With the tactile
controls, I'm able to just have a start point and as I am looking around, as
I look from one subject to the next I'm focusing or adjusting aperture a
click or two. When I see the picture I want to take I raise the camera and
the aperture and focus are already close or at the final setting. "Click"
and the camera is lowered back down in an instant while my eyes are again
looking for the next picture.
With the digital cameras, I don't have that tactile control mechanism and I
end up using auto-exposure to compensate for the poor control design that is
inherent to all PASM cameras. Same with autofocus--to get the response time
comparable to the prefocused manual camera, we need a gazillion AF points
and lots of fuzzy-logic to figure things out. No matter how fast a camera
is, zero to full-press of the shutter-release will delay the picture no less
than a half a second.
This delay, which is so much a part of our lives with AF, is picture
affecting. For example, when photographing people, the moment you raise the
camera to your face and point it at them, they will look away, change
expression or something. Anything you can do to eliminate the delay is a
benefit. With the OM or Leica system, for example, I can raise the camera
to the eye for framing, click the shutter and have the camera lowered in
less time than it takes for the AF to figure out which point to use. The
trick is to be able to take the picture within the one second "recognize and
react" period of your subject.
BTW, I really liked the umbrella picture.
AG
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