Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Martin Howard wrote: ><Snip> > I'm with Matt on this: I have a Swatch mechanical automatic watch, one of > the metal ones. (Yeah, go ahead watch snobs, poo poo it all you like.) It > gains about five minutes every month and perhaps once every six weeks I > reset it to something more in line with the rest of the planet. But my > philosophy is that if you need timekeeping that is accurate to two seconds > every month in your everyday life, you're better off getting major surgury > to remove your head from your ass before spending the money on another > watch... > > Time be time, mon. > > M. > I shot Swatch watches for Meier and Frank here in Portland in their Studio twelve years ago. The had a fashion model wearing a couple dozen swatch watches sitting under an 8 ft. stuffed black Gorilla with some plastic palm trees. I think they had the Gorilla wearing a bunch of the watches too that might have been my idea. And this is my first day at work there! I had to put spots on that Gorilla as it absorbed light like a sponge! And figure out how to use their flash meter and Norman strobes all in one morning! Then a day or two later a full page ad in the morning paper! (the Oregonian) We used to shoot 120 or 220 plus x and they had Hasselblads (of course) Markwr