Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When I was as a teenager I encountered a robbery in progress. I had my Minolta XG-1 loaded with Panatomic-X. (That favorite news photographer's special combination!) I was able to get a half roll of the bad guys leaving the deli and the police confronting them in the parking lot. I ran home to process the film, but decided I should call the news desk first to see if they wanted the shots (I had no doubt that they would want these babies). I called the news desk and they hadn't even been informed that a robbery had taken place. He then did the coolest thing a newspaperman can do: he called the the police station on another phone while I was live on this phone. I heard the whole conversation. We were a team right there on our bank of phones. As it turned out, the robbery was not very eventful and the pictures were not wanted, but the photo editor gave me a sincere talk about how grateful he was to have had the opportunity to use the pics, and that if I ever shot anything I though was of interest I should give give him a call, and he gave me his desk phone number. I wasn't even disappointed that he had not taken the shots--hey, it was almost like I was his man on the waterfront. Almost. When I processed the film, it was perfectly blank. I consider it God's gift to fools that I was not called in to have their lab man develop the film while me and the boys drank coffee and told bull stories. I would have been very uncomfortable going from colleague to nitwit in one fell swoop. Allan On Monday, August 5, 2002, at 01:38 PM, Douglas Herr wrote: > At least a photographer with some presence of mind can watch the rewind > knob > turn (but let's not discuss my latent images on the pressure plate). > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html