Re: [Leica] damnit!

[Ted Grant <tedgrant@islandnet.com>]

Kyle Cassidy wrote: & lots more:

clipped out:

<<<<< people and cow getting closer! -- remove old film, put in new
>film, close up baseplate -- wind click! wind click! wind click! -- they're
>on top of me! no time to meter, grab the shot! got it! wshew! off to shoot
>more -- about five shots later, i tilt the camera up to take a shot of a
>building spire, something cold flaps onto my cheek -- the backplate!
>damnit! i put the baseplate on without properly seating the backplate!
>@#$@#$! -- remove the -- what?! where the heck is my base plate!>>>>

Hi Kyle,

Rushing will kill you everytime. That's why I rarely go without two M6's
slung somewhere on body.

Like yourself,- I was going like a whirlwind one day and figured I mut have
set a record for reloading my M6, when a short time later after several
exposures....... I discovered the backplate swinging in the breeze! Hell it
was daylight and I still missed it happening until sometime after loading
took place.  Lost the roll of course.

But it can happen to anyone of us, if we are rushing!  That's what creates
the screw up.  Fortunately I've only done it once! That I can remeber!;)

A similar situation when working with 2 R cameras while under pressure with
things  happening all around you.

You run out of film in one camera, no time to change film as things are
flying. Switch to second body, continue captering activities.  A momentary
lull good time to change film. Pop open camera and "SURPISE!!!!!!!!!" You
open the back of the wrong camera! Exposed film is sitting there in your
face on the take-up spool! :(

Hey that's life!:) What the hell, as long as no one dies from it who cares.

ted




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