Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Donal - what sorts of cameras are you shooting this with? You use motors heavily, I take it? Do you use aqua-housings or bags, or are you just really careful not to drop stuff? - -----Original Message----- From: Donal Philby <donalphilby@earthlink.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 12:45 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Q for the pros >I remember seeing perfect alignments of skiier and boat go by while we >were trying to get our distances sorted out before we tired out the >skiier. I shot two people on a tube being drug behind the boat driven >by the guy who is the test pilot for these things, he swirls around and >back across wakes and I am braced semi-standing in a little runabout >doing hard turns and trying to keep tube and people in focus and >framed. I have a couple sequences of framed tube, then sky, water,sky, >bit of tube, out of focus rear deck, tube with people all in mid air >flying and totally out of focus. > >So I have a trashcan full of rejects and the balance went out FedEx last >night to Seattle. > >Gimme a J-boat anyday! > >Maybe I'll post a few on web site in a couple days. > >Donal >-- >Donal Philby >San Diego >http://www.donalphilby.com > >