Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle Cassidy is the William Wegman of the LUG - a comedian with a Leica! At 12:56 PM 1/21/00 -0500, you wrote: >so i'm out shooting with my m6 yesterday, it's dark out, i'm shooting by >street light ... i get to the end of a roll, wait! what's this! great shot >coming up! two people walking towards me carrying a huge plastic cow >upside down on their backs. i rewind my film, fast fast fast, remove the >baseplate -- people and cow getting closer! -- remove old film, put in new >film, close up baseplate -- wind click! wind click! wind click! -- they're >on top of me! no time to meter, grab the shot! got it! wshew! off to shoot >more -- about five shots later, i tilt the camera up to take a shot of a >building spire, something cold flaps onto my cheek -- the backplate! >damnit! i put the baseplate on without properly seating the backplate! >@#$@#$! -- remove the -- what?! where the heck is my base plate! nothing >but FILM here at the bottom of my camera (gloves on, you know, can't feel >a thing) -- run back along the route i traversed (thanks for the snow, i >know exactly where i went) -- ah ha! here's my baseplate, in three inches >of snow. wipe it off on my shirt, put it back on the camera -- off again. > >where did those two guys with the plastic cow go? > >kc > >moral of the story? who knows.