Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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