Stephen,
I was flipping through the channels last night and happened upon a program
about accidents involving race photographers. Some brutal stuff. One guy was
standing in the middle of the road photographing something on the side
during an evening rain storm. A driver, peripherally blinded by the water
and bad light, didn't see the photographer and hit him. That victim was
being extremely stupid. Several others were hit by cars losing control and
flying way off course. Most of these were road race and rally type events
where there is little crowd control. I'm sure it's tempting to want to be
where one should not be. It's certainly not a place to be careless. Have you
or Mike had any close calls?
/jim
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stephen Scharf
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 7:02 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: "Real World Tests"
>Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:17:56 EST
>From: ClassicVW@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [OM] Re: olympus-digest V2 #4495
>
>With all due respect, you were just pressing the shutter to test the
battery,
>right?
No.
>Was that a "real world" test? No.
Excuse me, but yes they were.
>No one could take 1000 shots in a day and
>be able to pay attention to focus, framing, exposure, etc.
They were motorsports racing photographs. Our job is to get as many
photos of each racer as possible. With, for example when shooting a
go-kart racing event, with 325 go-kart racers per event, that
averages out to only, maybe, 3 photos/racer. Your comments remind of
the people that say you can't shoot race cars at coming at you at
160 mph at 1/250th of a second at 400mm handheld. If you don't think
I can do it, you're welcome to come join me for a full 8 hrs of
shooting and see for yourself. Or, ask Mike Veglia if it's possible.
And shooting with a 1D, you would very surprised at the no. of
keepers I would have. Way more than one would get with any Olympus
OM-series camera.
>Yes, the new batteries may be amazing, but you have no way of knowing if
that
>digicam you just bought will be discontinued in a year after selling 5,000
>units, or 5 years from now after selling 3 million units. Guess which
camera
>will be difficult to find a battery for in 5 years? It may be yours.
I doubt it.
>GeorgeS.
-Stephen.
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