Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 27 Sep 2006 at 13:46, Kenneth Frazier wrote: > Who, me? Lose a roll of film? Forget to pull out a collapsible > lens? Leave a lens cap on? Go without an extra battery? > > <big sheepish grin> <G> Been there. Done that. (Wash a Tshirt several times and it tears into a bunch of really nice lens cloths, especially when you've got lotsa spare tshirts...) Actually, it probably speaks well for the guy that he didn't think about what the flash was going to do (a mistake I've made on occasion myself, though I'm usually pretty careful). He's probably a guy who doesn't use flash if he can help it, but he's working for an editor or a publication that simply insists that ALL faces should be evenly and frontally lit regardless of what it does to the quality of the photograph. (There are, from experience, a very significant number of these individuals at smaller local/weekly papers... a rant which I will leave for another lifetime.) Result, you stick the flash up there, put a stofen or lumi on it, dial it back as far as you think you can get away with, and try to forget that the damn thing's screwing with everything you do. And once in a while you get too good at not thinking about it, and you get bit. I suspect that rather than not having anything, he got a serious shadow line across the middle of the frame in the Stalin shots, and since he wasn't shooting RAW he couldn't save it, and the editor was gonna have his butt. I feel for him on account of once or twice I've BEEN him. Poor dumb bastard. (and while I'd recognize a Barnack design, I've only worked with M's and then only as a shooter, not a collector. I couldn't tell a I from a III or any variants without asking... )-- R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee@rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request