Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On rare occasions, I get invited to weddings. On rarer occasions, I attend. (It's the same with funerals. I figure I won't be able to get out of attending my own, but I'll dodge as many of the rest as I may!) When I attend a wedding, my customary gift is a photo album of candids. If I am fired up, I'll do the processing and printing myself, but I may use pro processing if I'm in a lazy mood (and, frankly, the older I get ... ) I'll be attending a wedding on the 28th of this month, of an old friend's daughter, a young lady I have known since she was 5. I will take my M6 and a 2.8 Rolleiflex. The ceremony is supposedly going to be outside (the Angry Weather Gods having been propiated by the sacrifice of a dozen Nikon bodies beforehand), so I will probably shoot only colour, though I will have some TMZ and 3200 Delta on hand just-in-case. With the M6, most of my shots will be with either a 2/90 Summicron or with a 1.5/7.5cm CZJ Biotar T. I will have other lenses on hand, of course (4.5/21 CZ Biogon, 1.4/35 Summilux, 1.4/50 Summilux, 2.8/90 Elmarit, and, maybe, some longer lenses), but I generally find those two are the best for the job. I will take a Metz 45 CL-4 flash rig along, but I doubt if I'll use it. No fill-flash, so I'll probably do C-41 instead of chromes: but, if it is to be a drop-dead gorgeous day, I'll have some Kodachrome and Ektachrome along for the ride. I'll wander about the reception with the Rolleiflex, loaded with Agfa colour-print film of some sort. Who knows what I'll come up with? But it will be fun. (And, yes, I will have a Viso rig and tripod in the car, though I doubt if I'll use such. And I will have a self-timer for the M6, as I suspect I'll be expected to be in some of the pictures.) Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!