Re: The Ice Cream Man vs. An empty M6

[ROB HEYMAN <rheyman@cynergy.com.au>]

Ben Holmes wrote:

> I thank I just set a new world record for loading an M6, setting film
> speed,
> chasing down the ice cream man, and getting the picture that I wanted,
> sort of.
>
> We bought our house on a street with no kids, just OLD, OLD folks. The
> local
> ice cream guy, you know - ding ding, dingy dingy, ding ding - that
> guy,
> decided to troll down our block and lo and behold, my wife grabbed my
> son
> and ran him out to buy his first dilly bar, or somesuch. I, in a post
> yard
> work stupor, grabbed a 6, a roll of tri-x, and headed out to record
> the
> event. At a full clip I managed to load the thing, set the film speed,
> and
> then proceded to burn 15 or so frames of my son crying, terrified at
> what
> must have seemed like an escape from a burning building. Not what I
> had in
> mind, but the pictures are kind of cool - in an ironic sort of way.

Ben,I gotta see those pictures, are you going to display them for us?