Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rolfe Tessem said: > But in the uncropped version of Nick Ut's Pulitzer Prize winning Vietnam > photo of the naked girl running down the road to escape the napalm > attack, you will see David Burnett frantically trying to reload his M2.<<< Hi Rolfe, And he could just as easily been frantically re-loading a Nikon F instead or any other camera he was using. In these situations it's the luck of the draw when things start popping around you in any situation of fast moving nature. It's one of the reasons I on occasion work with 5 or 6 cameras at the same time hanging from neck and shoulders. And under those circumstances if you're caught changing film in all 5 at the same time you have absolutely no business working this kind of assignment. However, I will say I've been caught..... "once"....... And never again, as you feel so stupid with all these empty cameras hanging off your body frantically re-loading while the action is flying by you. You hang your head knowing you've been skunked and the pictures are lost. At that moment you swear an oath it'll never happen again. It never has. ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html