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Subject: [Leica] NYT Article on Photographing F1
From: rbaron at concentric.net (Robert D. Baron)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:29:38 -0500
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> Digital is not all good!

Amen to that!

--Bob

==On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Frank Dernie
<Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:
> The guys he mentioned are friends of mine, I have known some of them for
> decades and see them all at the races. In the old days I used to carry film
> home for some of them since my flight may get home earlier than theirs.
> There would be a motorcycle messenger waiting to take them for processing.
> Everyone -used- to be jealous of the photogs. Whilst they were under
> pressure when we were running, they had pretty much nothing to do other
> times, first for beach, bar, dinner etc while the others worked till
> bedtime. No more, they hump laptops around and work all evening just like
> everybody else! Digital is not all good!
> Frank
>
> On 11 Sep, 2009, at 23:49, Robert D. Baron wrote:
>
>> This will be of interest to some of us:
>>
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/sports/autoracing/12iht-SRFOTOGS.html?pagewanted=1&ref=global
>>
>> or
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/ls4cf7
>>


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