Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Donal: What a timely post. I have been asked to take some yacht racing pictures by our Yacht club and was wondering how one steadied the large telephotos. I have a 280 2.8, or a 400 2.8 to use along with 1.4x and 2x extenders. Our club is also hosting the Etchells North Americans in 2000 and I will have to get some Etchells pictures as well for our program. For the nautical crowd, there is a video of me steering my Etchells upwind in about 25 knots of breeze. It is at: http://www.etchells.org/photos/video/can63.avi Regards, Robert At 12:48 PM 6/2/99 -0800, you wrote: >Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> I also thought I have heard here on the lug about the popularity and >> convenience let alone the functionality of "Coolers." Plastic containers >> designed to keep food cold with the handle. That way when you watch your >> car bake in the High noon sun with your cameras/film in it as you sit in >> the Dairy Queen never taking your eye off the car you know your >> cameras/film are not being baked into oblivion. And they look innocuous! > >Mark so smart: > >The big gun yachting photographers in the racing circuit use just such, >ones big enough to hold a 600 f/4 plus other stuff. Waterproof on >bottom, cool, get one with wheels and handle. slick. I think it was >Carlo Berlinghi, of See and Sea, a stock agency he owns in Italy, who >first pioneered the idea, and then others followed suit--Guy Gerney, >Franco Pace, Daniel Forster, Sharon Green, Kaoru Soehata. I've shared >boats with these people. Pace (PA-che) does boats like H C-B does >people. Shoots little, just zip, zip of the Canon here and there. >Knows when and where. The others shoot like someone else paying film >bill (there is). Pace, too, is gentleman, but living in VW van for 20 >years following boats around Europe until he started making enough to >live on. Published a book 5 years ago selling for $150 and worth it. >Just did an other book on boats designed by Scottish designer Fife in >first half of the century. Knockout beautiful (even if not shot on >Leica!) > >Here endeth the detour. > >donal >-- >Donal Philby >San Diego >http://www.donalphilby.com > > > > >