Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B. D. Colen wrote: > If one is using multiple bodies, and is in the middle of a fast moving > shoot, all sorts of ugly accidents are possible...;-)<<<< Tim Atherton said: >>If you're juggling cameras it can happen. And if things are busy (i.e. a couple of cameras, fast moving crowd or group, striking miners and riot cops, 30 cops launching a mounted horseback charge... etc it's easy not to check the rotating rewind...) I'm not saying it's an everyday occurrence, but I can bet you many LUGGERS have done it!<<<<< B. D. wrote: >>If you're juggling cameras it can happen. And if things are busy (i.e. a couple of cameras, fast moving crowd or group, striking miners and riot cops, 30 cops launching a mounted horseback charge... etc it's easy not to check the rotating rewind...) I'm not saying it's an everyday occurrence, but I can bet you many LUGGERS have done it!<<<< Hi Guys, Oh dear me if I could only go back and re-cover all those wonderful photos recorded on the pressure plate it would be marvelous! Not to mention the money I could re-cover! ;-) Hell then I might have the pictures of the Queen I missed because the camera wasn't loaded, actually two of them! :-( Now there's a hell of an admission! ;-) And when I panicked and told her Aide what happened and if he might hold her for a few seconds, he looked at me with one of those stiff upper lip, nose in the air snotty attitudes you just want to punch out and responded... "Pity!" And turned towards her and off they went! Oh well that's life and no one died, although it felt like I was going to. Trust me, I figured I'd get killed or seriously maimed over the incident. However, one must always maintain friendships even in the heat of competition, as the other two shooters, (only three of us were invited to photograph the Her) slipped me a couple of their outtakes and basically saved me ass. Hey what are friends for but to protect each others butts under fire. :-) Usually an empty camera shooting occurs when working with three or four cameras at the same time and in the rushing and switching cameras you may quickly unload, then let the camera hang there while you momentarily return shooting with another. But something else happens and you reach for the camera "without" the base plate on and actually shoot a few "perceived frames" before you realize your predicament. Worst case? Do the above while other photogs see you do it, then they watch you load it properly! OUCH! they can be viscously mean in comment! ;-) Or here's another; You finish a roll, re-wind rapidly, drop it on the neck strap figuring to re-load it as soon as there's a break. Meanwhile you're shooting away, then the break of a few seconds when you grab the camera whip the base plate off and "SURPRISE"...... it's the wrong camera and you've just lost a bunch of frames! :-( Oh heck the scenarios are endless. Trust me, if you haven't done it yet, shooting with an empty camera.... you will at sometime. And whatever you do, don't be a smug smart ass and say.... "it'll never happen to me!" It will! Trust me, would I lie to you? ;-) ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html