Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/02

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Would Ansel Adams shoot Leica
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:53:58 -0400

And if mine is working at all, I think you're right...but that doesn't mean
that setting up those shots wasn't normally a long process involving a
period of waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiting....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Doug Herr
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:38 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Would Ansel Adams shoot Leica
>
>
> On Wed, 02 August 2000, "B. D. Colen" wrote:
>
> >
> > What makes you think he set up and was shooting within 2 minutes, rather
> > than being set up, ready, for six hours, waiting for what he
> considered the
> > decisive moment when the clouds, sun level, etc., came together
> just as he
> > wanted them on his already composed, focused, ground glass?
> >
>
> If my memory is still functional, his "Moonrise" photo was set up
> in a very big hurry and he made the exposure just before the
> light disappeared.
>
> Doug Herr
> Sacramento
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