Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Lifeboat kit
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:59:21 -0700

At 08:31 PM 4/18/98 +0200, you wrote:
>> Fr=E5n: Mike Johnston=20
>> What about you? Does your Lifeboat Kit look more like Jim's well-stuffed
>> travel bag, or my lone, monastic 50mm?
>=20
>Neither.  I would take a large tripod.  Nothing else.  I would set it up in
>the middle of the lifeboat and I would absolutely gaurantee that within ten
>minutes a patrol boat would haul over the horizon full of busybodies and
>ask me what I was doing with "that thing".  Hence rescue.
>
>Or I may consider a U.V. filter for the same reason.
>
>Alan Hull
>=20

You can use the UV filter to signal aircraft by reflecting the sun at the
aircraft. A tripod alone won't do it. You'll just get a ticket for using a
tripod in an unauthorized place.

Jim