Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]<<<>Responding to: Kari Eloranta:>>>>>>> Kari: An apology is in order. Unfortunately I jump started off your back due to the comments of another. And I shouldn't have assumed anothers experience from what I perceived it to be. :) Please accept. <<<<I quoted the NG figure just because many people I have mentioned it didn't know it and found it ratherinteresting. One shot out of 30 rolls>> I thought you might find this an interesting number: LOOK magazine, now defunct, used 8 photographs for a feature on Japan and the photographer, Paul Fusco screened and edited 9000 35mm frames before they got to the printed 8. Some of those numbers came about from one situation where he road on the back of a motorcycle, shooting a pretty Japanese girl riding on another bike as they weaved through downtown Tokyo traffic. It was a wild ride to say the least, but the one image was so fantastic, it was worth the many rolls it took to acquire. Blurrs and stopped action! As I said and now understand you do, shoot many rolls during any feature assignment with the biggest chore not being the shooting, but the post processing editing of hundreds or thousands of Kodachrome or Ektachrome slides. Although it may have appeared that I shoot only B&W in a "nearby hospital", my assignments much like yours are all over the country and in many parts of the world. I fortunately rarely think about the cost of film, as I'm assigned to do the projects and film costs are born by the client. A very nice way to have an expense not to worry about, as I'm sure you are aware. :) Always nice to have someone else footing the bill, if it weren't for that fact of any assignment, many of those I've done during the past years would not have occured. <<<In your reply you first deny this and then acknowledge it. What exactly is your point?>>>>> I'm a slightly better photographer and write atrociously! :) <<Your condescending lecturing wasn't called for.>>>>> And I apologize again for "lecturing in a condescending manner". Not my usual style. :) ted.