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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - National Geographic film usage
From: Rolfe Tessem <rolfe@ldp.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:25:54 -0400
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- --On Wednesday, April 23, 2003 12:06:39 PM -0400 bdcolen 
<bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:

> In the days of the real LIFE magazine it used to be said that one should
> expect to get about two 'keepers' per 36 exposure roll - two frames that
> meant something special to the photographer.
>
> I've always heard that the NatGeo photographers consume tons of
> film...But don't forget that they are often involved in assignments that
> extend for months, and involve travel to difficult and distant places,
> places where you can't easily return - or can't return at all - to get
> the one shot you missed. I would assume that if you are doing a piece
> on, say, endangered gorillas in the mist, you are going to shoot all the
> film you can get your hands on.
>
> B.D.

B.D.,

You are talking about the National Geo of the "old days". I think very few, 
if any, assignments are that long anymore. In fact, I think plenty of stuff 
in the magazine is shot in just a three or four days. At least it looks 
that way, which is why I cancelled my subscription. Is there anybody who 
doesn't think that the photographic quality of the magazine has gone way, 
way downhill?

Rolfe

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Lucky Duck Productions, Inc.
rolfe@ldp.com
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