[HUG] Timely Holiday Warnings....

Dear Friends and relatives,

 

             I small list of cautions from Uncle Dick for your safety in
this holiday period:

 

1.         When using a Honeywell Tilt a Mite flashgun attached to the front
of a B 50 lens hood on an 80mm Planar C lens and a 5B flash bulb

don’t tilt the flash head up to the ceiling to bounce the light off and then
lean down a try to frame the shot in a waist level finder. Flashbulbs are
hot and foreheads are tender. This becomes evident quickly and it is hard to
get sympathy from my family. I mean your family.

 

2.         Many people are used to staring at the back of their cameras as
soon as they have taken a picture – presumably to try to remember what it
was they originally framed in their digital point and shoot – the time lag
between pressing the button and the actual exposure being about a quarter of
an hour in some instances….DO NOT let people look at the back of your
Hasselblad. They will not understand. If you must give into their simian
desires, cut a small picture of a naked girl out of a racy magazine and slip
it into the film reminder window and let them see that. The looks on their
faces then prepares them for a second exposure….

 

3.         No-one minds what you do after their first 8 bottles of beer
and/or 4 glasses of Bundy and Coke. Equally they don’t mind what they do,
either. So if you are going to take New Year’s Eve party pictures after the
ethanol sets in, put a clear filter on the front of the lens and a rubber
lenshood. By all means capture the trains wreck as it happens but do so at a
safe distance beyond the splash.

 

4.         That also applies to weddings.

 

5.         The police are always telling us not to drink and drive. This
timely advice also applies to us when we take out our new $ 10,000 digital
back in the studio.

 

6.         All photographic stores and all labs close the day before you run
out of film or need an urgent job. You should have stocked up before they
closed. I told you, but did you listen? No, you just never listen. I told
you, and I told you, and….come back here when I’m telling you….

 

            And to all a good night.

 

            Uncle Dick                                            


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