[Leica] wedding disaster

[Summicron1@aol.com]

But of course you had a backup body with a meter in it, right? And/or a hand-
held meter?

Of course you did. You had to. Nobody should ever shoot a wedding without
backups of everything.

I rread your tale of woe with sympathy, but you can be an object lesson to
anyone else pondering shooting a wedding my friend: never ever shoot a wedding
with an unfamiliar camera, never ever shoot a wedding with unfamiliar film or
exposures setups, odd film ratings, or anything else. se only equipment that
is tried and true and procedures you are totally comfortable with.

And have a backup -- a hand-held meter would have saved your bacon on this
one, although taking time in your photographic life to learn exposures well
enough so that you can eyeball them would help as well -- did the lighting
situations really change so much while your meter was dead that you couldn't
keep shooting?

ctrentelman
ogden utah
In a message dated 7/21/98 7:13:12 AM, you wrote:

<<>I shot almost two rolls: finished up a trix400 and shot a whole roll of
>Ilford XP-2 EI @800. Then had a disastrous setback :-0.  After loading
>the film (all was observed: film to sprocket were in synch, rewind knob
>turned when advancing film to '0' at 1/1000 f/16 with lenscap on) the
>left red triangle was flashing everytime I checked the exposure meter.
>The lenscaps was off. Light level had not changed so the light level was
>not below the threshold of the exposure meter.  I even changed the iso
>dial from 800 to 1600 and to 3200 with all combinations of shutter
>speeds and apertures to make sure it wasnt "low light levels".
>>>