Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/07

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Subject: [Leica] M6 and Vivitar 283 - a comment
From: "Gerry Walden" <gwpix@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 23:30:14 +0000

I had a job today that was particularly delicate. It was to photograph a 
mother and her two year old child whilst the mother was on a fortnightly 
access visit tightly controlled by social workers and with them taking notes 
of the mothers actions and reactions all the time. The mother wanted some 
photographs for Christmas, and Social Services agreed if I was non-obtrusive 
and left immediately if requested to do so. I was given a maximum of half an 
hour. A delicate situation!

I used a M6 with Motor M attached and a Vivitar 283 bounced into the ceiling 
and it worked like a dream. Very quiet action with minimal flash effect. 
After the first 3 frames the child took absolutely no notice of me at all. 
That Vivitar was purchased in about 1973/4 and is still going strong today. 
I have a Metz 45 but for this job the Vivitar was lighter and just sat on 
top of the camera with no problem. The thing I did learn though was that my 
arthritis is making it difficult to crawl around on the floor photographing 
a 2 year old for half an hour!

Gerry
www.gwpics.com

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