[rollei_list] Re: Krikor and his amazing stickingself-timer
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:06:32 -0700
Don,
Very good, but we would like to see that non repeatable picture!
Jerry
Don Williams wrote:
> At 08:44 PM 7/18/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> I bought an Olympus E-1, in part, because it DIDN'T have a pop-up
>> flash. Something about that made it feel like it was more of a pro
>> camera. I always felt that a self-timer was the sure sign of either
>> an amateur camera, or a camera from a completely different sort of
>> culture. Their presence on just about every pro camera makes me
>> think it is the latter.
>>
>> If a true pro wants to have his picture taken, he either gives his
>> camera to another pro, or he takes his picture in the mirror. ;-)
>>
>> I have used a self timer a few times for an extreme close-up shot,
>> but feel that the mirror lock-up did more to quell the shake. Now,
>> who can do an extreme close-up shot with a Rolleiflex MX-EVS? ;-)
>
>
> This is a late post, but I really needed a self-timer to get some
> shots of me sitting on some of the stones at Stonehenge some years
> back. I had been in Bordeaux on a business trip and on the way back
> went through London, got a car, drove to all the sights near
> Stonehenge, spent the night at Bath, and caught the next plane back to
> L.A. Never even went to London that trip.
>
> Believe me (I was in an overcoat I see) it was cold and there weren't
> any other people there to take the pictures. I guess I was lucky
> because it was during a period when one could approach, even touch the
> stones. I got pictures of that dagger carved near the base of one of
> the uprights, and other things nor not available to visitors now.
>
> DAW
>
>
> Don Williams
> La Jolla, CA
>
>
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