[Leica] Apology (sort of) NOW BATTERY USE?

[scoutfinch at chartermi.net (Susan Ryan)]

Ted, my hero.


Sue Ryan
scoutfinch at chartermi.net

"Stupidity is a force unto itself." - Latin proverb

On Feb 23, 2011, at 6:49 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca>  
wrote:

> philippe.amard asked pleadngly?? :-)
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> Subject: Re: [Leica] Apology (sort of) NOW BATTERY USE?
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> Le 23 f?vr. 11 ? 21:56, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> a  
> ?crit :
>> Actually learned the spare battery thing many many years ago when we
>> required them for flash bulbs! :-)
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>> Need I say more about the logic behind having a spare  
>> battery? :-)<<<<
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> Yes Ted,
> no need for batteries if only for flash use
> not on a Leica list, unless you really have confessed above to  
> having owned
> and used a  FLASH !!!
>
> Say you never did, please
> say they tortured you into false confession,
> do something Ted
> Save the myth,
> Please !!!!!<<<<<<<<<<<
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> Philippe mon ami,
> The torture was incredible, They fed me endlessly with huge bowls of  
> ice cream in the beginning. The only thing that saved me was......  
> "I like ice cream so I didn't really suffer." :-)  Then they  
> relentlessly plied me with my favourite alcohol beverage... single  
> malt Lagavulin! I drank like a man lost in the desert without water  
> for months. Again I did not suffer, nor tell. I was close, but I did  
> not. :-)
>
> It became obvious I would not give up, even though I was tempted by  
> beautiful scantily clothed women dancing and cuddling about me! It  
> was close, but I swore I'd never tell. It looked like I would win  
> the battle for the truth....
>
> "Did he or did he not use a flash with his Leica????????"
>
> After all these years of "available light or no light! Go Leica as  
> long as you can see it? Shoot it!"
>
> That philosophy many many long years ago while using a Speed Graphic  
> was more than pushing your dumb luck at getting a picture. Unless it  
> was high noon and a sunny day. OR! I must confess, but only because  
> it was during a time when my life was simple minded and I was just  
> following orders to use FLASH... THEN THE ULTIMATE THREAT OF TORTURE  
> WAS FORCED UPON ME!!! ......   "use it or the newspaper wont publish  
> your pictures!"
>
> The devastating sound of those words "the newspaper wont use your  
> pictures!" was the ultimate form of torture.... "YOU WOULD NOT BE  
> PUBLISHED!!" I was shattered! Almost a broken young man whos' only  
> wish in life was to be a published news-photographer! Was that so  
> difficult? I sobbed!
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> At that moment it was the ultimate threat of torture for one to  
> endure! "Not to be published" was worse than the threat of death  
> itself! I would have rather died! Well not quite!:-)
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> I'm sure you must realize I asked for mercy, meanwhile reaching for  
> the "flash gun and bulbs" attaching the flash gun to the side of the  
> Speed Graphic body, my body shook uncontrollably.
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> It was the darkest moment in my young photographic life to fall  
> before those who forced me to use a flash! But unknown to them I  
> swore unto myself I would never ever use a flash with my beloved  
> Leica of the day, or any others I maybe so fortunate to own in my  
> future.
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> If I lasted long enough after the first flash bulb went "POOOF" I  
> would as quickly as possible take my trusty Leica and shoot a roll  
> of film at any subject I could see to thwart the great angst of  
> using a flash bulb.
>
> I fired, well I made an exposure by the brilliant flash of light  
> leaving my subjects almost blinded. I cried as I removed the hot  
> flash bulb, it burnt my fingers raw scarring me for life! Such a  
> wicked moment I shall never forget!
>
> There it's out and I'm completely devastated, but please forgive me  
> as I never used a flash with a Leica!
>
> I trust Philippe this will not affect our friendship of so many  
> years? :-)
> cheers,
> Dr. ted ;-) ;-)
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