Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/16

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Subject: Re: rules & laws
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:56:26 -0700

At 02:35 PM 10/17/97 +1000, you wrote:
>Jim - Thanks for your comments.  By rules I was meaning things like
>don't shoot slower than 1/30s with a 50mm lens, don't shoot into the
>sun, don't take landscapes between 9am and 4pm, never photograph from
>behind a mob of cattle etc.
>
>I agree with you that these aren't hard and fast rules but they are
>generally passed on as such.  Each of them is valid for a particular
>photographic result, but so often I have received advice without first
>being asked what it is I am up to.  It is always nice that people are
>friendly though, and in the end I guess that's what counts, not the
>preservation of my ego.
>

Rob,

These are the very rules I was speaking of.

Jim
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