Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/09

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Subject: [Leica] Re: M sound levels/Speed Graphic
From: csocolow <csocolow@microserve.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 14:10:49 -0500

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Harrison McClary wrote:
>SNIP

> Just used one sample of the speed graphic.  have always wanted to get one
> for myself to play with, but have not yet.
> 
> Harrison McClary

Harrison,

When I used to do daily news work we would have to photograph high
school football in some of the most underlit fields imagineable.
Usually, we would go out with 35mm and push Tri-X to 1600 or 3200. Some
of the fields were too dark even for this. 

At these locations we would sometimes do it the old fashioned way just
for the hell of it. We'd take a Speed Graphic with a potato-masher type
flash (I had an old Honeywell Strobonar 610) mounted on the side. A
couple holders of Tri-X, the camera pre-focused at 12 feet at f11 with
the open site sports finder for framing. We'd just position ourselves
along sideline in a likely position for action (this involved thinking
and knowing the game) and wait for something to happen in front of us.
Blam! Strobe firing with leaf-shutter set at 1/250 and lots of depth of
field on a big neg. No autofocus or anything. Sharp crispy photos. Two
holders=four sheets and we were out of there. They were only going to
run one photo so why stick around and waste film. Plus if the framing
was loose you could blow those negs up big and crop from there. Great
fun and a nice way to make photos. Sometimes the old way is the best.

I do own a Speed Graphic that I use as a field camera sometimes.
Sometimes I use if for copy work. Sometimes, with a Polaroid back, just
for snapshots. They are beautiful machines.

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Carl Socolow

http://members.tripod.com/SocPhoto/
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