Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/02

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Would Ansel Adams shoot Leica
From: Doug Herr <telyt560@cswebmail.com>
Date: 2 Aug 2000 10:38:07 -0700

On Wed, 02 August 2000, "B. D. Colen" wrote:

> 
> What makes you think he set up and was shooting within 2 minutes, rather
> than being set up, ready, for six hours, waiting for what he considered the
> decisive moment when the clouds, sun level, etc., came together just as he
> wanted them on his already composed, focused, ground glass?
> 

If my memory is still functional, his "Moonrise" photo was set up in a very big hurry and he made the exposure just before the light disappeared.

Doug Herr
Sacramento
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