Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant wrote: Because if you're in the middle of the action and there's a lot of pushing, shoving and leaning on by other photogs, a stabilizing lens isn't going to compensate for that. Besides you just push, lean and shove back and find out everyone goes home as happy as a cat in clean litter with their pictures intact.;-) >>>>>>>>>> Ted, I always used to feel kind of smug that my many years of experience in the rugby scrum had given me the edge in shouldering my way towards the bar in crowded clubs. Now I can see that life in the professional photographer pack breeds the same kind of abilities. When I was thinking of being 'in the middle of the action' I wasn't thinking of being surrounded by photographers - I was thinking of being surrounded by the people you are photographing. I can't imagine that you got the wonderful results that we see in 'This is Our Work' by sending the doctors and nurses flying around you. But maybe you did... :) Simon. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html