The night the US beat Russia for the Gold in Hockey, we watched it with the
atheletes at the Austrian house. Now THAT was fun. Then we talked about
Olympus
cameras ;-)
John
Jan Steinman wrote:
> >From: John Hermanson <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Also, as I recall it was unusually warm at those Olympics. The Bob sled run
> >actually started to melt.
>
> Gee, John -- I was beginning to think we'd attended different Olympics! :-)
>
> I went back and looked for my notes, but couldn't find them. As I recall,
> there was a drought before the games, and they made snow and spread it over
> the cross-country venue with dump trucks -- the first time in history a
> major cross-country competition was held on artificial snow. I know it was
> bitter cold at the beginning, but I think it warmed up during the games.
>
> I distinctly recall that the men's 30k and possibly the 50k cross-country
> events were postponed due to cold -- FIS rules require that it be warmer
> than -20C (about -5F) for a race to start. The reason I distinctly recall
> this particular race was because the patrollers had a thing -- if you were
> on TV, you bought a round at the bar. I was at the finish line when the
> great Finn Mieto won that ~20 mile race by the equivalent of less than an
> inch -- 1/100th of a second! It cost me about $60 for that instant of
> fame...
>
> Requisite Oly content: see <http://www.bytesmiths.com/80AL06LowRes.jpg> for
> one of my favorite shots of the games. OM-2, Zuiko 75-150/4 set to about
> 100mm, automatic exposure of about 1/4th, probably f16, panned with the ski
> jumper during exposure, KR64. Jumper just came off the 70m ("little" :-)
> jump. Taken from the press box between the two jumps. Can't read the bib --
> no idea who it was -- probably a Norwegian; they wore blue.
>
> Sorry about the dirt -- someday I'll get out the PEC-12 and do a proper
> scan...
>
> BTW: this was really the only useful frame from half a roll shot that way.
> It's really hard to keep a 100mph human being in the frame for 1/4 second!
> I was shooting with both eyes, tracking the jumper through the viewfinder
> during exposure, then following with my left eye during exposure.
>
> : Jan Steinman <mailto:jans@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> : 19280 Rydman Court, West Linn, OR 97068-1331 USA
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>
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