Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:30 PM 8/17/2009, you wrote: >I'll never forget a public dialog with Gene Smith in 1976 (were you >there, George?), where, >in a quiet meeting room, with everyone hushed to listen to the >soft-spoken Mr. Smith, a big guy >in the front row would periodically stand up and fire off a picture >with a motorized Hasselblad. > >"Ka-chunk...zzziiipp". > >Alan In the workshop I attended last month with Gene Richards, also a very soft-spoken guy, one of the students (there were only 14 of us) kept using a big Canon with the infra-red focusing light bouncing off of Gene as he talked and the red-eye flash enabled so each flash was multiple bursts. It was so distracting, somebody finally told him to quit. In the meantime, I was taking photos with my M8 and the Nokton and nobody knew it ;-) Tina Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com