[Leica] Another year, another cousin gets married

[pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein)]

Just got back from a whirlwind trip to the east coast, to attend my cousin 
Rachel's wedding (she's the sister of another cousin who got married last 
year).  I think this will be the last one, as I'm running out of unmarried 
cousins.  :-)

Pictures are at the lab and will be posted shortly.  In the meantime, 
here's a few items that might interest the LUG.

"Listen to Ted Grant Department":  Not one, but *two* batteries died within 
minutes of the other.  Both the M6 battery and the battery in my Luna Pro 
Digital meter.  Just before the ceremony.  I carry spares, so life was good.

"Famous Last Words Department":  Jeff, the same professional who shot last 
year's wedding was there for this one.  Interestingly, last year he shot a 
Nikon F-something and film.  When people asked the inevitable "Is that a 
digital camera?," he replied that it wasn't, that he only shot digital in 
the studio where he could control the light, and he never shot a wedding 
with digital.  Well, this year, he was shooting with a D70.  "Ya gotta do 
what ya gotta do," he said.

It was a good day for digital--one of those white-sky east coast summer 
days, with the sky serving as a nice semi-soft box.  Jeff also had a big 
strobe on a bracket that he used for fill.  He would shoot, chimp the shot 
and histogram, and then do the "just one more" with the adjusted exposure.

Jeff did the official stuff, I did my usual candids, and a good time was 
had by all.  The wedding was at a quaint country inn in the 
Berkshires.,  with the ceremony outdoors and the reception in a barn.  I'd 
estimate I used the VC 50/1.5 Nokton about 60%, the 35/1.4 Summilux 
ASPH  about 39%, and I took two or three shots with the VC 90/3.5.  Film 
was Kodak BW400CN and Fuji Press 400.  I did use some flash in the 
barn.  Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

I am also happy to report that I drove in and around Fort Lee, NJ (the town 
that was the object of Rosanne Rosanadana's constant derision), and lived 
to tell the tale.

--Peter