RE: [Leica] Re: it DOESN'T work well for leica!

[Buzz Hausner <Buzz@marianmanor.org>]

Before we fight this out anecdote by anecdote, let me just make the point
that lighting in the delivery room can be highly variable, depending on time
of day, weather, available fixtures, mother's wishes, doctor's wishes, and
many other factors.  While maybe not by, "the light of one single candle,"
anyone expecting to photograph childbirth should be prepared for a wide
variety of lighting situations, intensities, color temperatures, et cetera.
Also, before we hash this out again, please check the archives, we've had a
very recent thread on photography in the delivery room.

	Buzz Hausner

- -----Original Message-----
From: Austin Franklin [mailto:austin@darkroom.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 11:41 AM
To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: it DOESN'T work well for leica!


>>. I always thought that doctors delivered babies
>> in more than the light of one single candle. But I could be wrong!
>
>Indeed, you are wrong, and you probably have never witnessed the birth
>of a human.
>

Indeed, he is not wrong.  That comes across as a rather arrogant statement.

It is situation dependant.  My son was born in January in a local hospital, 
and the lighting was just fine.  He was born at 11 P.M., so it was dark 
outside.  My wife did not complain at all about the lights in the room. 
 They weren't flood lights, but lighting was plenty sufficient for any 
competent photographer (and even most incompetent ones) to get some good 
shots with 400 or more film.