Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted's right! I shot a Mariners game a couple of weeks ago from some good seats behind home plate. With a 180 wide open, the fence doesn't show up at all, though the closer to the fence, the better. Sorry to hear the Blitz brewery bit the dust. When I was in law school, the brewery hired a lot of law students to work as tour guides and in the hospitality room there. Whenever someone quit, they threw a big party for them (free beer!), which allowed us to spend our meagre funds on law books, photocopies, food, rent, etc. The bar in the hospitality room was as slick as one of those shuffleboard games, with the result that countless pitchers of Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve would go sailing off the end. Decadence, decadence... Chuck Albertson Seattle, Wash. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 11:22 AM Subject: [Leica] More chain link fences > Ted Grant wrote: > ><Snip> "shoot right through the fence!" Wide > > open you don't see the fence. trust me! > ><Snip> > Yesterday Pitak and I were shooting the Blitz Brewery demolition across from > Powells Books in Portland Oregon through a chain link fence. > Some gorgeous stuff! We discussed how long we'd have to shoot before the cops > came or whoever if we got through the fence. > But we took our lens shades off and poked our Leica M lens through the links for > clear shots. We both were using 50's. > The light and sky were great and I was playing around with red and polarizing > filters to make it even more dramatic. > And At f16 to get the full foreground and background in focus the fence helped > steady my camera. > We discussed how SLR lenses would not fit through the chain link fences but > Leica M lenses would! > > But Ted's idea of shooting right through the fence with a long lens wide open > I'll have to try... > Either with my 135 3.4 apo Leica m. > Or with a 200 Nikor. (god forbid wonder if they're all dried up yet?) > Mark Rabiner >