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Subject: [Leica] STORY SERIES AS A TEST FOR THE NEXT BOOK? :-)
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:52:56 +0100
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....that one goes in too!

Peter

PS Put me down for a copy!!

On 25/09/2012 06:40, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:
> OK ! Glad so many liked the first couple. :-)
> 
> The Rocket Car
> 
>  When  film motor drives' for the 35mm camera appeared on the market, it 
> was
> 
> the answer to the action photographer's prayer. So many thought!
> 
>  
> 
> The motor could advance film at 5 or more frames per second, allowing the
> 
> photographer to capture peak action every time; well it was thought to.
> 
>  
> 
> Many photographers found to their sorrow, by relying only on the motor and
> 
> not their reflex instinct to release the shutter,  were missing the precise
> 
> moment of the action.
> 
>  
> 
> A story from a small town in Ontario, Canada of an old time photographer 
> shooting
> 
> with a 4 X 5 Speed Graphic and how he bailed out a so called super 
> "hotshot" big city news
> 
> photographer explains it all. :-)
> 
>  
> 
> An inventor in the town had built a rocket engine car that caught the
> 
> attention of a big Toronto newspaper.  The paper's regional editor phoned 
> and
> 
> arranged a test of the car to allow a writer and photographer to do a 
> story.
> 
>  
> 
> On test day the news photographer mounted three motor-driven cameras along
> 
> the track to ensure he would capture the moment of engine ignition.
> 
> He tested them with several bursts to ensure they were synchronized ready
> 
> for the fiery blue flame spurting from the exhaust upon ignition.
> 
>  
> 
> While the hotshot was going through all the testing, the old timer made
> 
> ready.  He removed the dark slide from his Speed Graphic film magazine,
> 
> cocked the shutter set for action with his "one sheet of 4 X 5 film."
> 
>  
> 
> Finally everyone was ready, car and driver, motor driven cameras, Speed
> 
> Graphic and one sheet of film.  The engine ignited, there was a brilliant
> 
> flash of blue flame, the  hotshot fired his three rolls of film, the old
> 
> timer's shutter went, "Click!"
> 
>  
> 
> The hotshot asks for a restart of the car one more time, "Just in case we
> 
> missed it."  Same sequence takes place, three cameras burning up film at 5
> 
> frames per second: The old timer and Speed Graphic goes, "Click" !
> 
>  
> 
> The next day the old timer received a phone call from the photo editor of
> 
> the Toronto paper. "Were you shooting the rocket car startup?"  "Yep" the
> 
> old timer replied.
> 
>  
> 
> Photo editor, "Our guy missed the flame, did you get it?"
> 
>  
> 
> Old timer, "Yep, which one would you like?"
> 
>  
> 
> Moral of the story:
> 
> Equipment isn't everything.  Photographers must still have an acute sense
> 
> of timing to make it work.
> 
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Dr Peter Dzwig                          




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