Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Other Ted, ;-) >>Brings me back 50 years ago when I did those "misery days" of shooting - sometimes > two in one day. And three or four on some weekends. Holding the 4X5 Linhof in one > hand, the huge strobe in the other, a ton of battery on one shoulder and a wallet of sheet > film holders over the other.<<< Well my friend it's a form of photography we both experienced many times compared to some of these young guys around here. :-) And like you, I hated shooting the damn things as they took all day Saturday, I'd shoot a Roman Catholic one in the morning and a Protestant in the afternoon. My real interest during fall wedding season was to be shooting the pro football teams so I hated weddings even more so that time of the year. :-) We used those big Multiblitz III wet cell power packs that weighed more than a case of beer and I was always reaching up high with the strobe gun to get away from shadows on the wall behind, but weighed down on the off side with the strobe and a Speed Graphic or a Crown Graphic on the other. We used film magazines with 12 sheets and the leather bag on the side where you slid the exposed sheet out into the bag and flipped it to the back of the set and when you finished the 12 you put the slide in and changed the magazine. A few times I put 24 exposures on one mag! Need I say more about the deep do doo later? ;-) >>> But looking back, it was a good learning experience. <<< It was very much so, despite at the time we didn't appreciate it nor what lay before us in the ensuing years. Which in reality still weren't so bad either, at least we made it this far with wonderful photo memories along the way. And to you my not so far away friend, lets see if we can't get a hand shake in during this New Year before us, certainly as soon as we get nice warm comfort weather to do it. Did you have any thought of coming to Victoria for the LHSA Spring shoot? Should be a fun thing, as I understand the folks who attend are "picture takers." ;-) The very best for the New Year may it be Healthy and Happy through out the 12 months. All the best to you and family. kindest regards, ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html