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Subject: [Leica] Another year, another cousin gets married
From: wrs111445 at yahoo.com (Bill Smith)
Date: Thu Aug 11 00:32:55 2005

Peter:
 
With the divorce rate as it is, pretty soon you have to attend the 
re-marriage weddings. But--more photo opps.
 
Bill

Peter Klein <pklein@2alpha.net> wrote:
Just got back from a whirlwind trip to the east coast, to attend my cousin 
Rachel's wedding (she's the sister of another cousin who got married last 
year). I think this will be the last one, as I'm running out of unmarried 
cousins. :-)

Pictures are at the lab and will be posted shortly. In the meantime, 
here's a few items that might interest the LUG.

"Listen to Ted Grant Department": Not one, but *two* batteries died within 
minutes of the other. Both the M6 battery and the battery in my Luna Pro 
Digital meter. Just before the ceremony. I carry spares, so life was good.

"Famous Last Words Department": Jeff, the same professional who shot last 
year's wedding was there for this one. Interestingly, last year he shot a 
Nikon F-something and film. When people asked the inevitable "Is that a 
digital camera?," he replied that it wasn't, that he only shot digital in 
the studio where he could control the light, and he never shot a wedding 
with digital. Well, this year, he was shooting with a D70. "Ya gotta do 
what ya gotta do," he said.

It was a good day for digital--one of those white-sky east coast summer 
days, with the sky serving as a nice semi-soft box. Jeff also had a big 
strobe on a bracket that he used for fill. He would shoot, chimp the shot 
and histogram, and then do the "just one more" with the adjusted exposure.

Jeff did the official stuff, I did my usual candids, and a good time was 
had by all. The wedding was at a quaint country inn in the 
Berkshires., with the ceremony outdoors and the reception in a barn. I'd 
estimate I used the VC 50/1.5 Nokton about 60%, the 35/1.4 Summilux 
ASPH about 39%, and I took two or three shots with the VC 90/3.5. Film 
was Kodak BW400CN and Fuji Press 400. I did use some flash in the 
barn. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

I am also happy to report that I drove in and around Fort Lee, NJ (the town 
that was the object of Rosanne Rosanadana's constant derision), and lived 
to tell the tale.

--Peter


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