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Hi David,
Thanks for your detailed reply.
David Farkas;1783 wrote:
The reason for limiting the exposure time is Leica's approach to quality standards. They are hesitant to allow users the option of something that would produce less-than-optimal results.AAAAAAGGGHH!!! What is it with these “nanny-state” manufacturer attitudes to what is permissable in photography?! Hasselblad are just as bad as Leica. Let ME, the CUSTOMER, the PHOTOGRAPHER, the ARTIST, be the judge of what is optimal or not! 😡 Leica, stop f*cking constraining us with YOUR ideals of quality! Unfetter the long exposure times!
David, you sell a lot of Leica gear, so you have weight. If you ever get to meet a Leica head honcho in person, slap them repeatedly in the face until they admit how WRONG they are on this. I mean it.
For heaven's sake, what's next? You're about to take a shot when the camera screen lights up with the message “My gravity sensors indicate that you are trying to shoot handheld at 1/15 second. This will probably cause camera shake and impair image quality. Leica Camera AG does not permit this. The camera will now power down in 3 seconds…2…1…”.
David Farkas;1783 wrote:
I will certainly pass the request on to Leica as I have been doing since the camera launched.Good man! Keep the pressure on them.
Ray
Hello Doug,
Very nice work – thanks for posting. Good to see that some of the P67 lenses are great performers on MFD systems like the S2.
Doug;274 wrote:
I mostly recuperated from a pulled leg muscle and bruised ribs suffered in Las Vegas the week before– sounds like your own personal version of “The Hangover”! 😀
Ray
Hi,
New RDF member here. This immediately caught me eye, as I am both a professional (academic) astronomer and amateur astro-photographer!
Yes, Stuart's absolutely right in his certainty: they are definitely stars. (Actually, they are quite out of focus stars…you weren't focused at infinity…perhaps you were using the hyperfocal setting?).
Why did they move so much in 32 seconds?
1) You were pointing the camera more or less at the celestial equator, where the movement appears fastest. The lack of obvious curvature in the trails across the frame, and the angle they make with respect to the horizon, confirms this. I can even tell that you were aiming at the Western horizon, rather than any other direction! 🙂
2) I suspect that you were using a telephoto lens? That covers a narrower angle so it magnifies everything – including the trails.
Ray
