Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:34 PM 9/30/99 +0200, you wrote: >From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> >Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 17:07 >Subject: Re: [Leica] Paris Rain ain't nuthin! > > > > When National Geographic almost used one of my pictures > > as the closer for their article on the flood, but canned > > it because, according to the editor, it was "too > > depressing" ... > >What did the photo show? A woman in Pattonsburg, MO (which was wiped out twice by flooding) digging through a pile of trash on the East side of town that local prisoners had piled up from the town's cleanup. She was looking through what was left of a thrift shop for clothes for her children. The pile was about 15 feet high. She was dwarfed by it. Unfortunately, a processing problem vastly overdeveloped the negative. National Geographic's engravers made two 8x10 transparencies from it and it looks as good or better than the best scan I could get from it with a LeafScan 45! They are true masters! They sent me the 8x10s afterwards. > > My Nikon F5 died from the cold on the second trip > > there. (The week-old batteries, actually). > >Were these lithium batteries? (The Eveready kind.) No, they were alkaline. In cold weather, they only lasted a week. But I had an F5 from the very first shipment to hit U.S. shores. It definitely had the battery drain problem. I finally got the NiMH battery/charger combo and was happy. That usually lasted three or four weeks. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million keyboards for a million years,eventually all the works of Shakespeare would be produced. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.