Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:25 PM 9/3/97 -0800, you wrote: >Doing location work is becoming more and more of a challenge as the >budgets shrink. I have 10,000WS of Balcar power, but it is a nightmare >flying with such a kit, especially without assistant. I have taken to Battery powered Lumedynes, or Normans, can do the job. My new employer is supplying me with Lumedynes, and a radio remote. Beats paying for it myself! <g> My boss says the Lumedynes make a very nice light. I've never really liked, or disliked the Normans, but their light never turned me on. Actually, speaking of Leica users at National Geogrphic, Bill Allard made his career shooting Kodachrome in available light. Any kind of light, and rarely using tripods. Mostly propping his cameras (both R and M - in fact having about four different 50mm lenses) on beer bottles or whatever was available - hey a new term, available support! - and using very slow shutter speeds. Only NG could afford his film budget. - --------------------- Eric Welch Grants Pass, OR "Drug kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes...died from nine hours of liposuction and plastic surgery -- or, as it's commonly known here in Beverly Hills, natural causes." Bill Maher