Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just got back from a whirlwind trip to the east coast, to attend my cousin Rachel's wedding (she's the sister of another cousin who got married last year). I think this will be the last one, as I'm running out of unmarried cousins. :-) Pictures are at the lab and will be posted shortly. In the meantime, here's a few items that might interest the LUG. "Listen to Ted Grant Department": Not one, but *two* batteries died within minutes of the other. Both the M6 battery and the battery in my Luna Pro Digital meter. Just before the ceremony. I carry spares, so life was good. "Famous Last Words Department": Jeff, the same professional who shot last year's wedding was there for this one. Interestingly, last year he shot a Nikon F-something and film. When people asked the inevitable "Is that a digital camera?," he replied that it wasn't, that he only shot digital in the studio where he could control the light, and he never shot a wedding with digital. Well, this year, he was shooting with a D70. "Ya gotta do what ya gotta do," he said. It was a good day for digital--one of those white-sky east coast summer days, with the sky serving as a nice semi-soft box. Jeff also had a big strobe on a bracket that he used for fill. He would shoot, chimp the shot and histogram, and then do the "just one more" with the adjusted exposure. Jeff did the official stuff, I did my usual candids, and a good time was had by all. The wedding was at a quaint country inn in the Berkshires., with the ceremony outdoors and the reception in a barn. I'd estimate I used the VC 50/1.5 Nokton about 60%, the 35/1.4 Summilux ASPH about 39%, and I took two or three shots with the VC 90/3.5. Film was Kodak BW400CN and Fuji Press 400. I did use some flash in the barn. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. I am also happy to report that I drove in and around Fort Lee, NJ (the town that was the object of Rosanne Rosanadana's constant derision), and lived to tell the tale. --Peter