Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So last week a friend of mine says to me, "can you come take some photos of me at the last dress rehersal for my play?" and I say (sigh), "sure." So I toddle down to the theater with my M6 to watch the last dress rehersal for the Rocky Horror Show. Which itself ain't so bad, but in my untoward youth I saw the movie more than a hundred times, so it's worn very thin.... Before the show the director says to me "Your friend asked you to take pictures of her, and it's okay if you take pictures of her during scenes's when she's on stage alone, but the other actors have asked that you not photograph when they're on stage because of the distracting noise of the camera." (and I'm thinking, "what's it giong to be like when there are two hundred people in the audience screaming 'CASTLES DON'T HAVE PHONES AxxxxxE!'") so the play starts, I snap a couple pictures of my friend and you can't hear a _thing_ if there's any noise at all on stage. So I'm thinking "what the heck." and I shoot the whole production and no one is the wiser because the camera is so dang quiet. After the show, everyone says "aw, dang, i really wish i had some pictures of _me_ -- this blows. i hadn't thought that I don't have any photos of me in fishnets and a leather teddy for my scrapbook." and I'm like, "well, actually you do...." Immediately I'm real popular. the shots came out very well too.... kc