Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 7/22/01 7:53 PM, Ted Grant at tedgrant@home.com wrote: > John Brownlow wrote: >>>> ever tried reloading a Leica in the middle of a thunderstorm with no > shelter rangefinder fogged up so bad I couldn't focus<<<< > > Jeeeeeesh, > Not me. I've changed them in the middle of a howling blizzard and that's bad > enough. There must have been some heavy duty humidity for the range finder > to fog. > ted scenario -- Ed Mirvish's 87th birthday party 3000 of the scariest looking Canadians (and I mean SCARY) you have ever seen in a total feeding frenzy for free cake and deodorant (no kidding... deodorant... and they needed it). then the light starts falling 1 stop every 30 seconds, and the sky just totally opens... KABOOM... thunder, cats & dogs everyone is running for cover... panic in the streets... only there IS no cover... people are pulling tarpaulins over themselves, clothing themselves in garbage sacks, whole families huddling under sodden cardboard boxes. It is totally hilarious. I couldn't not photograph it even though I knew it was bad news for the Leica. Anway by the time I have shot my roll of film there is not one square inch of shelter left, I am totally soaked to the skin, and it is raining harder than ever. But the pictures are still good... great strings of balloons have come adrift and are blowing down the teeming street... so I had no choice. by this time the sunscreen has run into my eyes so I am scale focusing anyway now the rain slacks off a little and I notice that there's no second rf image... presumably the mirror has fogged up inside (it's drying off now with the back, lens and baseplate off) luckily I had my T90 with me too so I carried on taking pix as the sun came out, which was just as well as a small riot has now broken out over the aforesaid balloons, with parents quite literally battling each other to get them for their kids. hmm just checked the Leica and still almost no rf image :( time for a trip to the shop I think - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com ICQ: 109343205