Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] I am probably crazy, but...
From: "\(SonC\) Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 19:22:00 -0600
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Brian said:


>
> > I would personally
> > recommend renting a medium or large format camera for the shoot.
>
> Someday I'll tell the story of the time I tried to do a high-stress
commercial job with a rented camera. Since it was not my own camera I was
not as familiar with it as I needed to be. (It was a Hasselblad).

Yeha, I did the same thing.  Got there, set up all my lights, got out the
tripod, loaded the (rented)  Hassie, and when I went to put it on the
tripod, it had a DIN tripod thread.  For many years after, I carried an
adapter on my key chain.

Regards,

SonC  (Sonny Carter)
http://www.sonc.com

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