[Leica] keep those leicas dry... CAPA SAID!

[richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)]

Another one?!! Sigh.

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:19 AM, pamiesue <tomschofield at comcast.net> 
wrote:

> There's one thing worse than someone tying to photograph the Tsunami.  At
> Mavericks, near 1/2 Moon Bay, CA, we had a surfer who flew in from Hawaii 
> to
> try to break his own world record for biggest wave surfed.  Note my use of
> the past tense.  The news last night showed his wife and daughters' 
> messages
> to him, written in the sand.
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message----- From: tedgrant at shaw.ca
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 9:25 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] keep those leicas dry... CAPA SAID!
>
>
> Steve Barbour offered:
> Subject: [Leica] keep those leicas dry...
>
>  re the tsunami that will hit the US west coast very shortly,
>> > don't go to the beach with your camera.
>> > If you can shoot a tsunami you are way too close...<<<<<
>>
>
> Hi Steve,
> Capa offered if "your pictures aren't good enough! You're not close
> enough!"
>
> Well this is one case where "HE IS WRONG!!!!" BIG-TIME!
>
> If I were going to be stupid enough to go to "photograph a Tsunami!" I'd
> want the highest ground away from the ocean and the longest lens... maybe a
> Canon 1250mm WITH A 2X EXTENDER to take the pictures!
>
> Last year after one of the quakes in the Pacific we had Tsunami warnings
> all
> up the Vancouver Island coast. And what happened?
>
> The morons who walk amongst us went to the beach to see what it would look
> like! :-( Of course then the coast guard folks and police officers have to
> put their lives in danger to make them go away! We even had one guy who
> argued he had all the right in the world to stay and watch because it's a
> "FREE COUNTRY!"  "Brains?" He thought they said "Trains! and missed his!"
> Where are the guys in the white coat's when you need them to take away a
> lunatic like that? The police just left him there! Unfortunately nothing
> happened of course!
>
> Trust me .... "He would not have been missed if he were swept away!"
>
> Living on coastal water one learns about Tsunami waves, Rogue waves and
> probably others that inlanders never hear about... Other than they read
> about a tsunami because they can kill a quarter million people before you
> can spit! The Rogue wave can sneak-up on you, sweep you off the shore into
> the water silently before you ever have any idea what happened.... other
> than you are now in the ocean fighting for your life.... which you usually
> lose! It's a big ocean! :-(
>
> And yes we need a word from any members in Japan what their status is,
> meanwhile say a prayer to the Great Spirit for everyone there!
>
> Dr. ted
>
>
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