[Leica] Would Ted Be Jealous? NOW 4 CAMERAS :-)

[rdcb37 at dodo.com.au (Rick Dykstra)]

I looked like that guy at the opening ceremony of a sports event I  
photographed a while back.  2 Ms, with 21 and 35, an R8 with 50 cron  
and flash and a Nikon 300/2.8 with a monopod.  I felt like a D-Day GI  
with that load.   But geez did my shooting partner and I get some  
shots.  Took heaps and sold heaps.

This lady said, "Are you the photographer?"

Rick.


On 30/08/2005, at 7:20 AM, Ted Grant wrote:

> John Black asked and wondered:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Would Ted Be Jealous?
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>>> 3 bodies I can see, but 4???  Maybe he had different kinds of  
>>> film in
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>> some.
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>> Sorry, I wasn't clear... I see there are 4 cameras, I was musing  
>> that I
>> can't imagine why he would NEED 4 cameras.<<<
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> Hi John,
> Well it depends on the assignment you are covering, whether you  
> have to
> shoot colour and B&W. How you approach the assignment, what's  
> called for and
> any number of other things. And in this case it appears to be a  
> motor car
> race and he's working the scene to death for every angle he can  
> squeeze out
> of it. Certainly if it's for a magazine then hundreds and hundreds  
> of frames
> are shot to make the final layout. And you can not be fooling around
> changing lenses.
>
> Maybe he's like me... I hate having to re-load film any more times  
> than I
> have to or change lenses in the heat of the shoot. On many an  
> assignment
> similar in nature as this chap, I've worked with three M's off my  
> neck,  2
> motor driven R's off the left shoulder and a third on the right  
> shoulder.
> All with various focal lengths. In other words you cover yer butt  
> from 15mm
> to a 280mm and a couple of extenders in your pockets, "just in  
> case!":-)
>
> Now obviously you do not load up like this for every assignment,  
> however it
> is the assignment that dictates how you will cover it, what gear  
> you use and
> or how many cameras you will require. Sometimes it's just ones own  
> style of
> working if you like, being comfortable that you wont miss something.
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> Besides when you shoot in this fashion you do not haul one of those
> humongous equipment bags off your shoulder because you've  
> everything right
> there to use in the blink of an eye and not digging around in a bag  
> head
> down and missing photos.
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> I've said for years I'd much rather have a sore back and neck at  
> the end of
> the day than miss a key picture because I didn't have the right  
> lens at
> precisely the right moment the picture happens.  It's being a good  
> Boy Scout
>
> By the same token on more than one occasion I've had one M on the  
> shoulder
> and that's it! :-) Much nicer by the way without all the weight! :-)
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