Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Which lens would you use ? (a moral dilemma)
From: Mike Gil <dtt2150@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:26:44 -0700 (PDT)

I would use my 600mm 4.0 to help him loss his grip. No
question about it.

Mike Gil

- --- Pascal <cyberdog@attglobal.net> wrote:
> A moral question 
> 
> I have a moral question for you. This is an
> imaginary situation, but I think
> it is fun to decide what one would do.
> 
> The situation: You are in the Middle East, and there
> is a huge flood in
> progress. Many homes have been lost, water supplies
> compromised and
> structures destroyed.
> 
> Let's say that you're a photographer and getting
> still photos for a news
> service, traveling alone, looking for particularly
> poignant scenes. You come
> across Osama Bin Laden who has been swept away by
> the floodwaters. He is
> barely hanging on to a tree limb and is about to go
> under.
> 
> You can either put down your camera and save him, or
> take a Pulitzer Prize
> winning photograph of him as he loses his grip on
> the limb. So, here's the
> dilemma, think carefully before you answer the
> question below:
> 
> Which lens would you use?
> 
> Pascal
> NO ARCHIVE
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