Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Kid candids
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:41:02 -0500

Brougham jotted down the following:

>> One of the hardest jobs I've had lately was photographing kids in a
>> playground for McDonalds.
> 
> I can imagine!  The easiest way I've found is to use a long, fast lens
> mounted on a tripod with a good pan head.

I thought that the McDonald's version of a playground was a plexiglass cube
about 7ft either dimension filled with coloured balls.  Stick a 300mm f/2.8
on a tripod and frame it up, you'd have to sit on the stoves ;)

M.

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