Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]an amateur's leica with a rapid winder took perhaps the all time scoop shot. the honeymoon bridge at niagara falls had started to sway and twist horribly. everyone knew it would snap but when? after days of waiting it seemed to calm down on a sunday and so all of the photographers, ap,up,buffalo,toronoto etc decided to go have a beer. all of them, no body stayed. a tourist put the camera to his eye and snap-the bridge did exactly that. with the winder he got off several shots. seeing no photographers around he called the buffalo evening news. oh we have three photographers there but you can leave your no. two seconds later the phone rang. they picked up the film and the next morning his shots with the leica w/rapid winder were front page everywhere. nobody died there but forty pros got ooped by an amateur at a time the leica was not considered newpaper worthy.ralph > From: chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson) > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:00:15 -0700 > To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Subject: [Leica] The Concorde Pictures > > This morning's New York Times has an interesting feature about the media > scrum (not *scum*) that battled or bid for pictures of the doomed Concorde > last week. I'm not surprised a lot of pictures surfaced---thirty years on, I > notice that nearly every passenger in the airport (including me) pauses to > watch Concorde take off, whether it's Heathrow, JFK, or Dulles. > > http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/073100crash-photo.html > > Registration is required to visit the NYT site, but it's free. > > Chuck Albertson > Seattle, Wash. >