Some years ago we made a small ski jump in a slope, and as grown up kids we started making more or less stupid tricks, so my contribution was to take a photo of the ski jump from the jumpers point of view. I made two mistakes, the first was deciding on a 24mm, the second was looking through the finder on my way down. I was, of course, fooled by the wide angle and thought the ski jump was further away than it was, so when I was unprepared when I reached the jump.
The result was a very funny photo taken by one of the others as I came through the air, camera first, then arms, head, etc. I remember hearing someone saying "Oh my ..." when I was in the air.
Luckily the slope below the jump was soft and powdery snow. The camera, a SuperA, was drowned in a lot of snow and survived, so did I. Also, I got a diploma for the best fall (but not the best picture) :-)
DagT
P� 20. jan. 2004 kl. 23.29 skrev frank theriault:
This weekend, I went toboganning with my youngest daughter. Brought along the LX with Viv S1 24-48. We had a blast - the temp warmed up (!) to around -8C, and there was plenty of snow and sun.
We were taking turns going down, and Claire had the camera around her neck when it way my turn. Just for fun, one time we went down together. I knew I was going to fall off the back of the toboggan (nothing to hold onto back there), and I was ready to make sure that I held the camera up in the air, no matter what my body did on the snow underneath. I hoped to snap off a few before my expected demise. So, I strapped the camera to my right wrist (my favourite way to hold the camera whilst out walking), and down we went.
Got off one shot, and promptly hit the snow. Kept the camera as high in the air as a could while I tumbled, and was quite successful in doing so. The camera got covered with snow, but never hit the ground! I, on the other hand, took the brunt of the punishment (better me than the camera!) Took off the filter (which was covered with snow, too), and I was all set to go! LX worked just fine after that.
I think everyone there thought I was nuts. I couldn't disagree with that assessment. Hope the shot turned out (I was shooting about 2 stops wider than the meter told me to, due to the white snow in the background).
Your comment on the safety of shooting out windows in snow storms with AF reminded me of that, Cory.
Sorry for your loss. Sounds like everyone appreciated your digital, though.
cheers, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Cory
Thinks it's much safer to snap photos of the snowfall out the windshield of
the car one's driving at ~65 Mph when one's using an AF camera.
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