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

[kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)]

Could I be forgiven, Ted. Some years ago a friend asked me to 
photograph a "naming" party for an adopted child from Chine. I agreed 
to do it if I didn't have to process the film, just hand her the 
exposed roll. Her apartment had white walls. I used BOUNCE flash on 
my M6. Please forgive.

Herb



>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 
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>  > 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 !!!
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>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. :-)
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>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....
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>"Did he or did he not use a flash with his Leica????????"
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>After all these years of "available light or no light! Go Leica as
>long as you can see it? Shoot it!"
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>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!"
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>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.
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>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!
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>There it's out and I'm completely devastated, but please forgive me
>as I never used a flash with a Leica!
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>I trust Philippe this will not affect our friendship of so many years? :-)
>cheers,
>Dr. ted ;-) ;-)
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