Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/23

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Subject: Re: A room for everybody
From: Fred Ward <fward@erols.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:33:56 -0400

I am still sitting by watching the fireworks following one of the most
unfortunate and damaging series of interchanges I have seen on this
star-crossed list. Judgment is reserved for the heart of the matter, but
one point cannot go without further comment.

Oddmund wrote:

> 
> >At 5:28 PM 11/22/96, Oddmund Garvik wrote:
> >>One of my colleagues went to the USA some weeks ago to cover the
> >>presidential election. At an election meeting Bill Clinton's press
> >>officer said to the photographers: "Gentlemen, you shoot at 1/125,
> >>aperture 5.6, focal length 85mm..." If you picked up a 28mm to make a
> >>different photo, you were excluded. Simply like that.
> 

I am currently and have been a card-carrying and accredited White House
News Photographer continuously since 1962. There is no excuse for
spreading rumors and suggesting things about the USA, the White House,
and the Clinton staff that are absurd and untrue.

The above story about lens selection and insisting that photographers
use a single focal length is laughable. (Most of the news photographers
who follow the president are using zoom lenses in addition to some wide
angles, so stating a single focal length is doubly absurd.

Put this one in the trash where it belongs. 

Fred Ward