Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 11/27/04 7:00 PM, "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca> typed: > Jim Shulman offered: >> Today I went to my favorite local camera shop, where a friend was >> purchasing a new DSLR. The clerk was demonstrating all the various modes >> of >> operation: raw, tiff, jpg, etc. I noted that my old M3 worked well in a >> la mode. >> "I've never heard of that one. What kind of file does that make?" asked >> my >> friend. "No file. >> That's when I dropped a vanilla ice cream cone on top of the camera, wiped >> it off, >> and kept shooting away."<<<<<<< > > Dan C asked: >>> Does chocolate work as well?<<<<< > > Mark Rabiner offered: >> It ties the things together "cameras are tools don't baby them use them" >> with the unbeatable beauty of low tech.<<<<<<< > > Well now I'm sure many of you re-call my unfortunate cow encounter with an > M6 a few years ago. ;-) So I wonder how the cow "dung spray" over the M6 > and > myself would apply if it were unleashed over a digital camera? ;-) > > I mean after all, I just wiped the rather smelly stuff off the M6 and had > no > choice but to keep on shooting. ;-) > > A digital well covered and some what saturated with this unfortunate > encounter of cow dung one would have to wonder if it would effect the digi > camera? As it didn't do "dung all" to the M6, but make it a rather smelly > bit of a camera to this day if used on an extremely "warm day!" :-) But it > still continues to work! :-) > > Digital and electronics? ;-) Any volunteers? ;-) > > ted > > I think chocolate cow dung on your Digilux 2 and you'd have lighting bolts shooting out of the camera and it would short out, partially cooking the cow dung. This of course changes the whole story. You've got cooked cow dung files instead of raw. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/