I think I would have at least taken a monopod... unless it was in the
car that was in the garage being serviced. I went yesterday to the
Pierce Creek civil war reenactment
<http://www.1stvacav.com/pierce-creek/> where I always end up shooting
nearly everything at 200mm. I went to get the monopod only to discover
that it's in the Buick which is in the dealer's garage awaiting new
front brakes. So this year's shots may be a little shakier than before.
:-)
ps: I've also finally discovered a reason to shoot JPEG. For three
years running I've been trying to catch the flame of a canon shot before
everything is obscured by smoke. Having not succeeded before I decided
that I must just start rapid fire shooting when the gun captain
indicates he's about ready to issue the command to fire. After missing
several attempts I tried shooting even faster only to discover that I
rapidly filled the buffer and had to wait what seemed like an hour
before the SanDisk Extreme III finished writing raw files. I missed the
main event on that try and was too tired of holding up my 300 pound lens
without a monopod. So I gave up. Next year I'll have to switch to JPEG
to try and catch the flame. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Joel Wilcox wrote:
> I spent the last hours of good light today, from about 4 PM to 8,
> riding hither and yon on the trusty motorrad and shooting about 25
> frames of Kodachrome 25. Rode about 100 miles and only briefly left
> the county. I generally followed an ellipse with the farthest point
> about 25 miles from home, but there were three or four excursions from
> the main route to check light, subjects, and shoot if I could.
>
> After waxing eloquent the other day about the virtues of auto mode on
> the OM-4, I think I'm going to keep using multispot but switch to
> manual mode as long as I am shooting this slow slow film handheld.
> I'm going to take the reciprocal of the lens length, set that for my
> shutter speed, do my spot readings and then just take whatever
> aperture I get. It's really a challenge to shoot ASA 25 especially as
> the light goes. I felt like Galen Rowell shooting the sunset tonight
> as I ran around looking for something on which to brace the camera.
>
> But these are good problems to have. It was really a fun evening.
>
> Joel W.
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