Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant wrote: > > > I generally carry and use 3 M type cameras with appropriate lenses and 3 R > > type, motor driven cameras with lenses from 15mm to 800mm!<<<< Pascal responded: > Hi Ted, > > How can you schlep all this outfit around with you ???<<<< Pascal, Obviously you don't physically carry all those pieces as you wander about shooting, as you'd need a mule train and handlers. But packing it and loading it for the flight is generally me, certainly in the old days. But when you go on an assignment you pretty well know what gear you are going to require, so everything is loaded into the cases and you fly off to where you're working. Like the American Express card slogan..... "Don't leave home without it!" ;-) Because if you do, it's Murphy's Law.............. "You are going to need it!" It depends what you are shooting, is it intense, lots of activities, require long, short and super wide? Or super long? In most cases you can answer these questions before you leave. But you can never take a chance that they wont be required, so they go. The M6's are stacked hanging on my neck one above the other so they don't quite touch, the lenses, longest 90 on bottom camera, Noctilux middle and a 35 - 21or 15 on the top. Two R8 cameras with motors on the left shoulder, one on the right. The lens used is determined by the assignment, however it could be a 280 on the right shoulder, with 1.4 and 2X extenders in a pocket, an 80-200 on one and 35-70 on the other of the left shoulder cameras. Yep it's a load alright, but after so many years of combinations like this they all just fit like your skin. :-) And do I get tired? You bet your sweet a... I do! ;-) And these days I try to avoid the kind of shooting that requires combinations of this nature as they are generally very physically demanding.. I wouldn't want you folks to think every assignment is approached with this kind of load, however most have at least 3 or 4 at a time. And very rarely less than two. ted Ted Grant Photography Limited www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant