[Leica] Traveling with Leicas

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Tina Manley offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Traveling with Leicas

>I've always been a "belt and suspenders" type person and carry way too much 
>just in case something fails.  Of course, when I carry everything extra, 
>nothing fails.  It's when I don't carry the back-ups that something drastic 
>happens!<<<<<<<<<

Hi Tina,
Well that's how I've worked for years, always a ton more gear than I need, 
but always on a "just in case need!" You don't get paid to come home with 
any weak butt excuse why you don't have any pictures unless yer dead.

Even then I know picture editors who've asked... "Did any one check his 
cameras for film before he was hit?" Hey its just the practical way of a 
photojournalist who bites the dust.

So I leave on this shoot with some equipment trepidation because I'm taking 
only 1 20D and that alone is enough to give me the willies of... "OK what 
will you do if for some reason it craps out?"

Quick answer... Find a camera store who sells them and buy another.

Or I do have a few days before I leave so I could eliminate the willies of 
crap out by popping down to the local shop, buy another body! :-) Heck that 
would be the easiest! ;-)

ted