Street Photography is a Sport

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And that’s why you need your film Leica M to be able to shoot at 3-4fps easily.

Which means, basically, that you can shoot a frame and then another one 1/3 of a second later, NOT at the end of the second. Huge difference.

Chess is a Sport. Street photography is a Sport.
 

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Like hunting with a machine gun, isn't it? What a sport!
 

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Leica-smeica. Real men shoot their 4x5 at 3-4fps.
 
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Dali said:
Like hunting with a machine gun, isn't it? What a sport!
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3-4fps means the camera is always ready. No slouchiness.
 

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Looking at that Magnum Contact Sheet book this is what pros do. 35 so so rejects and one good keeper.
 

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Rayt said:
Looking at that Magnum Contact Sheet book this is what pros do. 35 so so rejects and one good keeper.
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That's because they don't show you the contact sheets with no keepers on them.
 

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And yet, somehow, Weejee used to get good stuff with a Speed Graphic and conventional film holders...
 
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Dali said:
Like a machine gun!
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No.

3-4 fps means the camera is always ready, even for that one single Shot.

Bam!

Or BAM BAM BAM!

Or BAM BAM!

Or even BAM BAM BAM BAM!



It’s just a POWERHOUSE constantly ready. No lazy bs. No Weejee hypotheticals. Just BAM 36 times with no ballerina dance in between shots, or a Capoeira set of movements for every 4x5 shots.
 

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One shot per second is plenty. Don't despair, just practice more.

 

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I shoot the street with my SLRs, Minolta 9, 5.5 FPS, 9000 about 7 but think a bit faster with fresh batteries, for real work a camera I don't have the Canon EOS IV with sports grip 11FPS or F5 at 10.
 

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Good grief, why not just lug a cine camera -- shoot half frame at 24 fps. Some of those have wicked fast lenses...
 

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Haven't you seen that video of HCB tiptoeing around taking a picture here and there and then pirouetting in a different direction to see what else is going on. He didn't need 3-4fps. Granted, he probably had a lot of contact sheets with no keepers, but at least it looked like some skill was involved.
 

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All the best street photographers shot at 3-4 fps. Such as Vivian Maier, Gary Winogrand, HCB, William Klein, Diane Arbus etc etc

NB is just stating the obvious, no need to get all fired up.
 
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Huss said:
All the best street photographers shot at 3-4 fps. Such as Vivian Maier, Gary Winogrand, HCB, William Klein, Diane Arbus etc etc

NB is just stating the obvious, no need to get all fired up.
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“The best”... right. Get out of that mainstream train will’ya.

Like, The best movie is a hollywood movie, eh?
 

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You need a movie camera and then you can shoot a 24 frames per second.
 

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Rayt said:
Looking at that Magnum Contact Sheet book this is what pros do. 35 so so rejects and one good keeper.
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Hey I can do that - 35 contact sheets in the trash and 1 keeper on the 36th. sheet.

Along with Prof. Strunk's admonition to "Simplify, simplify, simplify" when writing there should be the admonition to "Edit, edit, edit" when photographing.
 

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Donald Qualls said:
Good grief, why not just lug a cine camera -- shoot half frame at 24 fps. Some of those have wicked fast lenses...
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That's the way sports photography is done today - set the camera to take a movie instead of stills and just follow the action with a 1200mm f4.0.

P.S.: Vivian Mayer, or anyone else, shooting a Rollie TLR at 4fps - this I got to see...
 

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Nicholas Lindan said:
That's the way sports photography is done today - set the camera to take a movie instead of stills and just follow the action with a 1200mm f4.0.
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Not for those of us who can predict the decisive moment. We only need one shot to capture the best moment.
 
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