Bravo John!
For someone who thinks he might, mistakenly, have been accused of being a
sclerotic gasping geezer, that was a tour-de-force (and I don't mean the
sherpa's efforts in portering). And to have produced it at 4:00 in the
morning is clear proof that you save the daylight hours for image-making
(with plenty of fill-in, it seems)!
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of John A. Lind
Sent: 01 July 2004 10:08
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Qualifications
Importance: High
At 10:44 PM 6/28/04, Wayne Shumaker wrote:
>The exception to that requirement is to spend time actually taking
>photographs rather than listening to the old farts on this list who
>have nothing better to do than argue about silly analog audio gear, or
>some such nonsense.
[rest snipped out]
I cannot deny that I might qualify for geriatric flatulence status. Even
so, I do run a considerable number of rolls of film through my cameras each
year, many more than the average non-professional. The mound of gear taken
to a hired shoot is also considerably larger than the average non-pro would
haul around. Last gig I went to, I took the following (to the tune of "The
Twelve Days of Christmas" [last verse]):
On my last wedding shoot, my Sherpas bore for me:
Twelve rolls of Portra
Eleven screw-on lens hoods
Ten Cokin filters
Nine high speed lenses
Eight rods of power cord
Seven roll film inserts
Six handle flashes
Five S - L - R's
Four silvered brollies
Three eight-foot light stands
Two monolights
And - a - flash - meter - in - a - leather - case
At least I have not yet sunk to, nor have I been accused of, being a
sclerotic gasping geezer.
-- John Lind
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